"Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Happiness Quotes #Morning Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Life is but a collection of habits.”
“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.”
“The family is both a biological and a cultural group. It is biologic in sense that it is the best arrangement for begetting children and protecting them while they are dependent. It is a cultural group because it brings into intimate association persons of different age and sex who renew and reshape the folkways of the society into which they are born. The household serves as a "cultural workshop" for the transmission of old traditions and for the creation of new social values.”
“Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.”

Source : Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston
“So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.”
“There is a â€œyoga bodyâ€ aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, â€œWow, you're so brave,â€ simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.”
“Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.”
“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn”

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