Quotable Quotes

People are what they are and they don't change. No doubt there are exceptions. Few and far between, they prove the rule. As a rule of thumb, one most useful in the art of living, assume that Schopenhauer was right in his doctrine of the unalterability of character. Never enter into an important relationship with a person, marriage for example, with the thought that you will change the person to your liking. That is highly unlikely. What will happen is that you will induce a change in yourself, one in the direction of frustration and disappointment.
MAVERICK PHILOSOPHER

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Voluntary simplicity involves both inner and outer condition. It means singleness of purpose, sincerity and honesty within, as well as avoidance of exterior clutter, of many possessions irrelevant to the chief purpose of life. It means an ordering and guiding of our energy and our desires, a partial restraint in some directions in order to secure greater abundance of life in other directions. It involves a deliberate organization of life for a purpose. Of course, as different people have different purposes in life, what is relevant to the purpose of one person might not be relevant to the purpose of another....The degree of simplification is a matter for each individual to settle for himself.
DUANE ELGIN

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
DAVE GROHL

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