"Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Drinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of nature, it's people that are mongrels, and half-wits, and they're doing terrible things. I don't know, it just seems like something worth singing about.”

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“Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.”
“Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.”

Source : Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”
“The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.”
“Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.”

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“Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.”

Source : William Muir (1818). “Poems on Various Subjects”, p.91
“I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.”
“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”

Source : Charles Simic (1997). “Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs”

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