"I never could be good when I was not happy."

-- Julia Ward Howe

#Not Happy Quotes #Be Good Quotes

“It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.”
“I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.”
“God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core impulses can;t be banished, they can be tempered and redirected.”

Source : Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.315, Vintage
“Sex appeal is not on purpose.”

Source : "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Imagination means nothing without doing.”
“Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.”
“It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.”
“The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.”

Source : Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.175, Macmillan

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