"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

-- Albert Camus

#Solitude Quotes #Religion Quotes #Weight Quotes

“When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.”
“There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once”
“Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.”
“None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.”
“Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.”
“There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.”
“The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.”
“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.”

Source : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage

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