"What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Pain Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.”
“I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.”
“As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.”
“A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where it's ingrained in me.”
“There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.”
“The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0Â° to 1Â°.”
“Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 21, 2014
“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...”

Source : James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage

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