"In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase."

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Source : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll" by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, (p. 48), 1898.

Edward Bouverie Pusey

#Adversity Quotes #Giving Quotes #May Quotes

“...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...”
“The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.”
“Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy.”
“It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.”
“What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)”
“When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.”
“Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.”
“It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that has happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realised in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy.”

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