"We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle."

-- Joko Beck

#Answers Quotes #Causes Quotes #Misery Quotes

“I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.”
“There's always been a women's movement this century!”
“I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.51, Faber & Faber
“For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?”
“I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.”
“I don't read books. I read the Daily Express and The Star.”

Source : Interview With Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2008.
“The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.121, I.B.Tauris
“Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.”

Source : Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.58, Penguin

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