"Balance is to choose happiness, to feel that the purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved, to be happy, to be conscious, to be aware, to be fulfilled."

-- Frederick Lenz

#Buddhism Quotes #Balance Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.”
“The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.”
“A man with a soul is not like every other man.”
“At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.”

Source : "Iran Calls Oscar Win A Success Over Israel". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.
“I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!”
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”

Source : "Letters to Olga". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1988.
“I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting.”
“I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.”

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