"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

-- Thomas Aquinas

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“History is the shank of the social sciences.”
“The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.”

Source : Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.”
“You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.”
“Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.”
“For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.”

Source : Ehud Olmert's address to the Congress in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. May 24, 2006.
“We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176
“You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.”

Source : Song: Hard To Say, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

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