"But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it."

-- Jeffrey Bernard

#Comfort Quotes #Want Quotes #Matter Quotes

“It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.”
“Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.”
“My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.”

Source : "Beauty Diaries at Every Age" by Jessica Prince Erlich, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 10, 2012.
“Everything seems impossible until you see success.”
“I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.”
“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA
“At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.”
“â€¦There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?”

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