"Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!.... Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere."

-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

#Joy Quotes #Missing Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”
“Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.”
“The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.”

Source : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter
“I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.”
“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory -is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof.”
“Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.”
“My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.”
“My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.”

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