"Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end."

-- Horace

#Retirement Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Limits Quotes

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
“What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.”
“To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.”
“When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan
“Hey, I work one full hour a day!”
“It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2003). “Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective”, p.180, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.”
“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.”

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