"Happiness need not be analyzed."

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Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2001). “8,789 Words of Wisdom”, p.305, Workman Publishing

Barbara Ann Kipfer

“To dance is to live ...to live is to dance.”
“Just because your direction has never been clear to you does not mean that you must give up.”
“The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you donâ€™t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.”
“When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates, I judge them by the smile in their lips, their smoothness of speech, and the whiteness of teeth; then I offer them the appropriate fruit, which is usually a lemon.”
“Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.”
“But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.”
“I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.”
“The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.”

Source : "$7.25 an hour is not a living wage" by Richard Trumka and Christine Owens, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2013.

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