"There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead."

-- Elizabeth Berg

#Happiness Quotes #Quilts Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“Tout reÂ volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en heÂ reÂ tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.”
“A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.”
“Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.”
“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.”
“The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.”

Source : Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland, May 27, 1885.
“In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.”
“He was the up and equal homosexual who would not sit at the back of the bus.”
“There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.”

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