"Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible."

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Jostein Gaarder

#Winning Quotes #Life Is Like Quotes #Tickets Quotes

“London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.”
“No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?”
“If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.”
“The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding absolutely nothing back; giving 100 percent of everything you've got to achieving wealth. It means being willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. This is the warrior's way. No excuses, no ifs, no butts, no maybes-and failure isn't an option. The warrior's way is simple: "I will be rich or I will die trying."”
“That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.”

Source : Marc Maron (2013). “Attempting Normal (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Random House Group
“Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA
“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”

Source : Kiera Cass (2015). “The Favorite”, p.6, HarperCollins
“Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.”

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