“Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.” WantHardLife IsEasyTroubleTrainCalmComplicatedReformFacultyDiscontentLife Is HardMake Others Happy Book:The Job: An American Novel Source: The Job: An American Novel
“Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.” MadeUsePleasureTroubleCivilizationAccountsMereComplicatedChosenDespiteBarbariansNewness Book:Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life Source: Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life
“I started puberty very late. I was nearly sixteen. And for complicated reasons this late arrival of my puberty caused me to stop playing competitive tennis. But before my puberty problem, I had trouble with my lower back and with my left testicle.” ReasonProblemLeftTroubleLateComplicatedTennisSixteenArrivalsPubertyTesticles Author:Jonathan Ames