"Lifes too short to just breeze on by."

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David Chang

#Life Too Short Quotes #Too Short Quotes #Breeze Quotes

“Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.”

Source : Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.3, Prabhat Prakashan
“In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.”
“Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.96, Penguin
“Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.”
“To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.”
“Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.”
“Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.”

Source : "Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel: The Life Story of a Pioneer Psychoanalyst". Book by Wilhelm Stekel, edited by Emil Arthur Gutheil, p. 206, 1950.

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