Voltaire in "Candide" wrote:

..there were much greater misfortunes than that of which he complained...

...A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but still I loved life...

...In the different countries which it has been my lot to traverse,...I have taken notice of a vast number of people who held their own existence in abhorrence,...

...I advise you to divert yourself, and prevail upon each passenger to tell his story; and if there be one of them all, that has not cursed his life many a time, that has not frequently looked upon himself as the unhappiest of mortals, I give you to leave to throw me headforemost into the sea...




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Kate Chopin in a short story entitled " Desiree's Baby" wrote:

"That was the way all the Aubignys fell in love, as if struck by a pistol...
The passion that awoke in him that day, when he saw her at the gate, swept along like an avalanche, or like a prairie fire, or like anything that drives headlong over all obstacles."

more about Kate Chopin here.

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Frank Abagnale in "Stealing Your Life" wrote:

...haste is the enemy of accuracy.




Still from Frank Abagnale in same book:

Not all justified complaints have a happy resolution.

Mark J Penn in " Microtrends" wrote:

"We live in a world with a deluge of choices."
click on his name to go to his site.





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Mark Twain, in "Following the Equator" as quoted in "The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain" by Alex Ayres, wrote:

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."

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Nick Rosen in "How to Live off-grid" wrote:

"The twenty-first-century challenge is how to disconnect, how to pull back mentally and physically from the endless merry-go-round that is modern life....I wanted to grab back what social change has stolen from us, or rather what we have stolen from ourselves- a sense of place, of being here and now."
click here to go to his website.







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Marilyn Yalom in "A History of the Wife" wrote:

"I have no illusion about the nature of work in general. It does not always challenge the intellect, and rarely allows for innovation and imagination. It can produce stress and pain and damage to private life. Yet I cannot imagine the world of the immediate future without it."








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