"No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else."

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Quentin Crisp

#Happiness Quotes #Effort Quotes #Enormous Quotes

“The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.”

Source : Source: www.highsnobiety.com
“As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.”

Source : Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,
“Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.”
“There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.”
“I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.”
“It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.”

Source : Henry Martyn Robert (2000). “Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised”, Da Capo Press
“What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.”

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