John Henrik Clarke Quotes

I just do what makes me happy.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

We do what we like, and we like what we do.

As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

So the life I have made May seem wrong to you But, I've never been surer It's my life to ruin My own way.

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

I don't think about other people. They are not walking in my shoes. They are not paying my bills. What makes me happy is when I do what I like to do, for me.

He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline