Simon

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Simon’s Quotes

“Soli Deo Gloria”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

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“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity

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“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
― Victor Frankl

tags: inspirational-quotes, overcoming-adversity-quotes, philosophy-of-life

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“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: music, power-of-music, universe

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“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
― P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

tags: fate, humor, pessimism

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