"People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough."

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Mignon McLaughlin

#Life Quotes #People Quotes #Serious Quotes

“The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.”
“There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to surviveâ€”yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milkâ€”the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.”

Source : John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett
“Those who start later, tend to achieve greater”
“Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.”
“Take back the web because it is a situation that really isn't working for anyone.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,”
“I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.”
“Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.”

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