"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

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Emile M. Cioran

#Sacrifice Quotes #Envy Quotes #Venture Quotes

“Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.”

Source : "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“If you are passionate, be passionate about the highest, the most wonderful, and the most beautiful. Be passionate about this entire creation for everything is so beautiful.”
“A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.”
“No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.”

Source : J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young (1998). “A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young”, p.99, University of Texas Press
“I didn't get into music to win awards. I love to play and the older I get the more I love it. And I love new things.”

Source : Source: www.cincygroove.com
“But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.”
“The Ultimate Reality is that everything you think you need, you already have. It exists inside of you. Indeed, it is you. You are what you need - and therefore, you give yourself everything you need in any given moment.”
“Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.”

Source : "Crazy Jewish Mother's Day with Kate Siegel and Kim Friedman". Interview with Penny Mann, www.amazonbookreview.com. April 18, 2016.

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