"Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Stories Quotes

“How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.”
“I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.”
“There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.”
“A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.”
“Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?”
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
“The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.”
“Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.”

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