"When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Attitude Quotes #Father Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.”

Source : Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
“By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.”

Source : Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.”
“Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.”
“Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of sincerities, It rides up in a song. Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart, Grave as the birds in last solemnities Assembling to depart.”
“Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.”
“If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.”

Source : "Intensive care" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2002.

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