"You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously."

-- John Barth

#Serendipity Quotes #Good Faith Quotes #Elsewhere Quotes

“Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.”
“We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”
“Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?”
“A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.”
“The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.”
“I want to help people, give hope to all. Humor is the foundation of our lives.”
“This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “The Woman of Rome”, p.202, Steerforth

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