"Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread."

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Source : Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Happiness Quotes #Despair Quotes #Bread Quotes

“Wine is poetry in a bottle.”

Source : 1985 Of wine. In Manhattan Inc, Jul.
“Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.”
“While some sit on the sidelines and fail to offer any practical solutions to address high gas prices now, the House is once again taking action to meet the energy needs of the American people.”
“Wherever I am, I think it's my show.”
“To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.”
“What looks large from a distance, close up ainâ€™t never that big.”
“Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.”
“Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of "criteria" for testing the correctness of opinions then becomes the most important task. Genuine and fruitful criticism judges all opinions with reference to the object itself. Ressentiment criticism, on the contrary, accepts no "object" that has not stood the test of criticism”

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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