"To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at."

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Source : P.B. Kerr (2010). “Children of the Lamp #6: The Five Fakirs of Faizabad”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

P.B. Kerr

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“The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution.”
“Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure”
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
“I will always love to perform standup comedy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I urge you to sin. But not against these itty-bitty religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism-or their secular derivatives, Marxism, Maoism, Freudianism and Jungianism-whic h are all derivatives of the big religion of patriarchy. Sin against the infrastructure itself!”
“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.”
“There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the feelings I would like my work to inspire. This is the quality of life that I believe in.”
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak. Paraphrase of the 1958 translation, as quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978), 1957.

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