"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Life Quotes #Meaningful Quotes #Peace Quotes

“What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.”

Source : Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.179, SUNY Press
“Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.”
“I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.”
“To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.”
“I didn't understand at the time why Vince was so interested in teaching me life lessons when all I was trying to do was get my video played. But now I think it's because he saw a little bit of himself in me. Just like me, he was a rebel who listened to no one and did whatever it took to get the job done, pissing people off with his stubbornness and drive in the process. Therefore, he was trying to teach me how to better myself instead of repeatedly getting into trouble by rubbing people the wrong way.”
“We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.”
“Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that”
“The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.”

Source : Tribune, November 19, 1976.

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