True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure. - Sidney Poitier - Quotesmemo.com

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Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

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Sidney Poitier

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

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Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

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