"To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven."

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Alec Waugh

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.”

Source : Amartya Sen (1981). “Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation”, p.1, Oxford University Press
“Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!”

Source : "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.”
“Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.”

Source : Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Way To Arcady”
“The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (1992). “The Changing Nature of Global Security and Its Impact on South Asia”
“It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.”
“I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.”
“Therapistâ€™s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.”

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