"If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless."

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Andrew the Apostle

#Philosophy Quotes #Goal Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.
“Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith.”
“I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.”
“What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.24, Macmillan
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
“You have to go down before you can come out â€” thatâ€™s how these things always work.”
“The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she said they should sell something to the tourists and use the profits to help redecorate the White House. She decided to make a small book. It cost 42 cents and sold for a dollar. Over the years it has brought in $42 million.”

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