"The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness."

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Henry Ward Beecher

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“Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.”
“In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do with art. So I'm making it clear that this is an artistic choice. It's not everyone's artistic choice. Some people should choose only to make object form because that's what gives them pleasure. But there are people for whom aesthetic pleasure comes from doing something else, and why would you deny that choice? It's another autonomous choice.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.”
“Energy is an eternal delight.”
“I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.”
“Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."”
“Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.”

Source : Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.894, eBookIt.com
“Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting childrenâ€™s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readersâ€¦at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.”

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