"American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos."

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Source : Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.25, Macmillan

Eric G. Wilson

#Believe Quotes #Ego Quotes #World Quotes

“It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.”
“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”

Source : "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.
“I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.”
“When Mia Hamm touches the ball, you just hold your breath.”
“One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.”
“Itâ€™s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain thatâ€™s so powerful that you canâ€™t feel anything anymore, thatâ€™s when you start to feel like youâ€™re going crazy.”

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