Quotes on Rat Race

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.