Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) English writer and socialite
Author: Mitchell A. Leaska, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, published in (1990), pg.242
22 June 2014, 7:05 PM https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/480894477922357248, 7:06 PM https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/480894603738877952, 7:10 PM https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/480895594307678208, 7:20 PM https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/480898226304720898. <br class="br">These Tweets were directed at Lana Del Rey who had said "I wish I was dead already" in an interview http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/12/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence-album with The Guardian while discussing Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain. <br class="br">See more about Frances Bean Cobain's response in Kory Grow, " Frances Bean Cobain to Lana Del Rey: Early Death Isn't 'Cool' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/frances-bean-cobain-to-lana-del-rey-early-death-isnt-cool-20140623", Rolling Stone (23 June 2014). <br class="br"> Twitter https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666 posts
Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) English writer and socialite
Author: Mitchell A. Leaska, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, published in (1990), pg.242
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Source: The Kite Runner
“This is why you're wasting your life away.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“The gift of life is too great to waste”
David Gemmell book Quest for Lost Heroes
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 1
Context: By my lights, my son, you are a young man. [... ] there should be love in your life. Am I at fault in my thinking?''Not at fault, Senior Brother. I loved once, and in truth I could love again. But the pain of loss was too much for me. I would rather live alone than suffer for it.''Then you are here to hide, Charreos, and it is not a good reason. The gift of life is too great to waste in such a fashion...
Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer
Bielski, Zosia (interviewer), "Giving introverts permission to be themselves," The Globe and Mail, January 26, 2012.