"Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated."

-- M. John Harrison

#Reality Quotes #Mad Quotes #Doom Quotes

“There should not be a party within a party.”
“Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.”
“Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.48, Penguin
“I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the athletic lottery many times over.”
“I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but after a few years life gets easier for them and they think they've become completely human when they've only stopped trying. I stopped trying, but my life was so full of strenuous routines that I wouldn't have noticed had it been not for my disease. My whole professional life was a diseased and grandiose attack on my humanity. It is an achievement to know that I am simply a wounded and dying man. Who can be more regal than a dying man?”
“God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.”
“I think that every man is afraid of his wife.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.”

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