"The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it."

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Source : "To college grads: Love life and work" by William J. Bennett, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2011.

Robertson Davies

#Motivational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Retreat Quotes

“The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?”
“A good garden may have some weeds.”
“Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.”
“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.”
“There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.”
“I was born the day before the March on Washington. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Everybody in my neighborhood was a Democrat. We just didn't have any Republicans, because anyone running as a Republican was very out of touch with what our community needed.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.”
“In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.”

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