"Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies."

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Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”

John Townsend Trowbridge

#Inspirational Quotes #Lying Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.”
“The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.”
“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”
“There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.”
“Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy”
“Movies are like magic tricks.”
“... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd
“For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.”

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