"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Sympathy Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.”
“Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.”

Source : Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.12, Open Road Media
“He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.”

Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.25, A&C Black
“We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom for us to be black, or brown, and you to be white, and yet live together in a free and equal society. This is the only way that integration can bring dignity for both of us.”
“To know oneâ€™s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at oneâ€™s own face with oneâ€™s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at oneâ€™s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.”
“I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.”

Source : "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.
“When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.”

Source : "Pauline Neville-Jones: 'Some say I didn't make it easy on myself'". Interview with Nick Hopkins, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2011.
“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

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