"I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world."

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Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

#Work Quotes #World Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“In the United States, I am often addressed as a doctor. I should like to point out, however, that I am not such and shall never think of becoming one.”
“But this is touching, Severus,â€ said Dumbledore seriously. â€œHave you grown to care for the boy, after all?â€ â€œFor him?â€ shouted Snape. â€œExpecto Patronum!â€ From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. â€œAfter all this time?â€ â€œAlways,â€ said Snape.”
“But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.”
“News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.”
“To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”

Source : Gretchen Rubin (2012). “Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life”, p.37, Harmony
“If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.”
“I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.”

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