"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Life Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Defeated Quotes

“When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.”
“It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.”
“And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.”

Source : A Letter from a Merchant in London to his Nephew in North America (1766) See Napoleon 5; Adam Smith 7
“As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.”
“When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.”

Source : "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.
“Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.”
“When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.”
“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”

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