"The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them."

-- Harold S. Kushner

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“Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.”
“Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.”
“It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.”
“I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.”

Source : Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.”
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
“Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.”
“Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.”

Source : Esther Forbes (1998). “Johnny Tremain”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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