"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

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Source : Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Hunter S. Thompson

#Happiness Quotes #Believe Quotes #Positivity Quotes

“Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.”
“Some people said I was annoying, but now look how far we've come.”
“I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it...But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it...They want to end it. So do I.”
“our lives are stories we tell ourselves.”
“If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!”

Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107
“If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.”

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