"Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire."

-- Albert Camus

#Happiness Quotes #Choices Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.”
“People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.”
“A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible the world was. In reply, Rabi`a told him: "You love the world very dearly. If you did not love the world, you would not mention it so much. It is always the purchaser who first disparages what he wants to buy. If you were done with the world, you would not mention it either for good or evil. As it is, you keep mentioning it because, as the proverb says, whoever loves a thing mentions it frequently."”
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company
“Prayer has mighty power to move mountains because the Holy Spirit is ready both to encourage our praying and to remove the mountains hindering us.”

Source : Wesley L. Duewel (1986). “Touch the World Through Prayer”, p.29, Zondervan
“I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.”
“Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice.”

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