"Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank."

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Source : William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

William John Locke

#Life Quotes #Games Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“Have things to look forward to: Plan a trip, treat yourself to the spa, make plans in the future so that you can focus on what you're looking forward to versus how unbearable your present is. Understand that your brain is detaching. It's the same part of the brain that is activated as a cocaine user feening for their next fix. You're literally in withdrawal. Understand that it takes time for your brain and neural pathways to detach. You're not going crazy - it's just a process, and that process takes time.”
“Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.”
“The biggest thing I remember is that there was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering.”
“I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.”
“I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold”
“We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.”

Source : Saint Justin Martyr, Saint Justin (Martyr), Thomas B. Falls, D.D. (2010). “The First Apology, The Second Apology, Dialogue with Trypho, Exhortation to the Greeks, Discourse to the Greeks, The Monarchy Or The Rule of God (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 6)”, p.394, CUA Press
“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”

Source : Noah Webster (1977). “A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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