quotes about Problems In Life

“I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.”

“There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"”

“What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.1132, Dell

“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.”

“Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading”

“It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.”

“They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.”

“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Feb 26, 2014

“My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.”

“The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless”