"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

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Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.135, MIT Press

George Santayana

#Happiness Quotes #Work Quotes #Character Quotes

“All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.”
“I guess somehow I got a reputation of being able to dance.”
“Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.”
“Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair, Up the stem of the trillim, Straight up through the sky above this road right now, The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes. I try to remember that.”

Source : Pattiann Rogers (2014). “The Expectations of Light”, p.35, Princeton University Press
“If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.”
“The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and order that security clearance.”
“As we are - the world is.”
“In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.”

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