"Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful."

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Dalai Lama

#Meaningful Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.”
“History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves”

Source : Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company
“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2012). “Moth Smoke”, p.9, Penguin
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Source : Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group
“It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.”
“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem â€” reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.”

Source : "Russell Brand: my life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.
“But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.”
“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]”

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