"To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind."

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Source : John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.26

John Tillotson

#Happiness Quotes #Pain Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“Expect nothing. Do your work. Celebrate!”
“I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.”
“Great minds sink alike, right?”
“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”

Source : Diane Duane (2003). “High Wizardry”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.”
“Kate Forsythâ€™s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.”
“I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that”
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

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