Marcus Torhaug

“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute : View of the American Revolution