"Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing."

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Julian Baggini

#Might Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes #Flourishing Quotes

“You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever felt that you really knew her and that it was what you knew that you loved, and if you remember what it was you once knew, why is it so crazy to retain that love still?”
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
“I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.”

Source : Oral Roberts (1994). “Unleashing the Power of Praying in the Spirit”, Harrison House Incorporated
“Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.”
“My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.”
“Donâ€™t answer to sick, or broke, or worn out any longer.”
“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.”
“A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.709

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