“I guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.”
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
― Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays
“For some reason all activity, all happiness on the part of other people made me feel like vomiting. I was aware that my own life was finished and was slowly and painfully guttering out. What earthly reason had I to concern myself with the lives of the fools, the rabble-people who were fit and healthy, ate well, slept well, and copulated well and who had never experienced a particle of my sufferings or felt the wings of death every minute brushing against their faces?”
― The Blind Owl
― The Blind Owl
“You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.”
― Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
― Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
“Love people, use things. The opposite doesn’t work.”
― Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
― Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists
“You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move. What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement. Your pride is not involved. The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
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