"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."

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Source : Villette ch. 36 (1853)

Charlotte Bronte

#Life Quotes #Success Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.”
“They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?”

Source : Adam Rex (2010). “Fat Vampire: A Never-Coming-of-Age Story”, p.22, Harper Collins
“The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems.”
“The worst person to be in the celebrity Big Brother house with would be Peter Andre - cos I hate his Missus.”
“What is to give light must endure burning.”

Source : Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“I'm really not worried about what fans think.”
“It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.”

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