"our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes

“Iâ€™ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, Iâ€™m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like thatâ€™s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, itâ€™s over. You feel like you canâ€™t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.”
“I don't know of any science writing going on in women's magazines, unless you count medical stories about things like breast cancer. I still think there's a huge problem about how we can actively engage a wider range of women. I'm not saying women must be a separate audience - I'm just responding to the reality that the majority of people who do read science magazines are male. That's not a value judgment; it's a statistical fact.”
“The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different from how they are. We see it most clearly when our personal situation is painful and we want very much for it to change. It's the wanting very much that hurts so badly, the feeling of "I need this desperately," that paralyzes the mind. The "I" who wants so much feels isolated. Alone.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.37, Ballantine Books
“If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”
“If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.”
“It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.”
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it.”

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