"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."

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Christian Nestell Bovee

#Happiness Quotes #Joy Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.”
“Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.”
“To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.”

Source : Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.”
“I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.”
“A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.”
“You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.”
“Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.”

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