"We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change."

-- Gayle King

#Fighting Quotes #Trying Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Without duty, life is soft and boneless.”
“Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.”
“The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.”
“When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.”
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

Source : Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics
“true love is feloniousâ€¦ You take someoneâ€™s breath awayâ€¦ You rob them of the ability to utter a single wordâ€¦ You steal a heart.”
“We are what we are. We don't have to define it or label it.”
“In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.”

Source : "Russian revolution" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2007.

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