"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Life Quotes #Courage Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The term â€˜free marketâ€™ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is â€˜lawless market.â€™ In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing itsÂ costs (like pollution).”
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.15, Oxford University Press, USA
“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Source : George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203
“Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.”
“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor
“Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.”
“I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.”
“Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.”

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