Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
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Related The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die q... TOM ROBBINS That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the min... CYRUS BROACHA In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness ... ARIEL GORE Communication is the mortar that holds humanity together; it’s the very currency of our society. LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. MIRIAM MAKEBA It is our clear view that a cyberthreat can disrupt the provision of services and disrupt our societ... JAMIE GORELICK You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt... JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you,” he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He ... JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up. AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship. LAURA LINNEY Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external. CHRISTOPHER DINES The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly belie... BELL HOOKS Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS We can learn to rejoice in even the smallest blessings our life holds. It is easy to miss our own go... PEMA CHODRON It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of ... DAVID GRAEBER There is not a “true” happiness and a “false” happiness. Only happiness and meaning. The key... JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from oute... DAVID SUZUKI Sexuality is something that should be discussed in our society. Being hush-hush doesn't benefit our ... ELIZABETH BUTLER I think it's ridiculous. Our customers come in, they think it's ridiculous. They think that Key lime... LISA ROTH It is often only in our trials that we become aware that our courage or patience or faith could use ... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business ... KERRY STOKES The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from oute... DAVID SUZUKI The secret of our success is that we never, never give up. WILMA MANKILLER I think that our society still has some prejudice in it, and baseball is a reflection of the society... JIMMIE LEE SOLOMON We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in... THOMAS MERTON You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality! JOHN GREEN I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too. JOHN GREEM Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we ag... LIONEL SHRIVER We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on ev... CARL HONORE What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. LEO BUSCAGLIA It is part of our responsibility to make sure that our product is being used efficiently by our cust... LARRY JOHNSON Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is ... AMBROSE BIERCE The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster. MARTHA GELLMAN While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any othe... SAM HARRIS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou... ETHEL ANDRUS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou... ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless... GARY HAMEL I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo... MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi... MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi... MARTHA WASHINGTON All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time. IMMACULEE ILIBAGIZA A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ... SAM KEEN (It) indicates that this stereotype of Muslim Arabs in our society has reached a point where even me... JACK SHAHEEN The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of lif... ANITA JOHNSTON It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we ... YEHUDA BERG Our being is more important than our doing. We are human beings, acting as though we are human doing... HENNA INAM It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that f... MARY LAMBERT It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individu... RON LEWIS As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ... GWEN MOORE So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It ... LEILA JANAH I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believe... DALAI LAMA I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believe... DALAI LAMA The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! I... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of m... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis... MARTHA WASHINGTON In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that ... PAUL BLOOM This is something we all know, that a way of dealing with human-rights activists is to claim they ha... ABDOLFATTAH SOLTANI Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed ad... MATTHEW SHULTZ Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire c... DALAI LAMA One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the res... LAUREN WILLIG I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which un... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my resp... JOHN GREEN Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I hav... JOHN GREEN Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence," Isaac: "I'm pretty sure a... JOHN GREEN Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around ... JOHN GREEN This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore JOHN GREEN —¿Qué más? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es más inteligent... JOHN GREEN I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a w... JOHN GREEN I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption. GRACE POE Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sens... JOYCE APPLEBY The innovation of our workplace is key to the development of innovative solutions that address the e... CATHY ENGELBERT They set the tempo. We couldn't get into our transition and the key to us winning is being able to g... CALVIN RICE Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the ... LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. WILSON Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. EDWARD O. WILSON These e-mails are reflections of what we feel is happening in society, our fears and anxieties. It's... BARBARA MIKKELSON We all shared a belief in market-based economics — though we had somewhat different views as to th... ROBERT RUBIN Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of ... SUNDAY ADELAJA "To live the life of our choice" may be the dream of many but the real selection and actualisation o... ANUJ SOMANY Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one... EMILY GREENE BALCH When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look u... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG This culture that is mingling in our society has no justification. Our society will confront them an... MARWAN MUASHER To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be to... GEORGE MULLER I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being... LYNDON B. JOHNSON We write history with our feet and with our presece and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of... REBECCA SOLNIT I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of... T. D. JAKES A society that says we are defined exclusively by the bar and the nightclub , by self-indulgence and... DOUGLAS MURRAY Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is ... J.E BUCKROSE Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is ... J. E. BUCHROSE The biggest mistake we make is losing our happiness over words in opinions of others that won't furt... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa... KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot b... JAMES F. BYRNES To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness. JOHANN G. FICHTE
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