William B. Ogden famous quotes

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
-- William B. Ogden

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The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.
-- William B. Ogden

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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.