"We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once."

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Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

Alexander Smith

#Happiness Quotes #Remember Quotes

“I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.”
“A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.”
“That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.”
“It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.”
“Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.”
“Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.”
“There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?”
“Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 92), 1975.

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