"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."

-- Lydia M. Child

#Happiness Quotes #Happy Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.”

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“Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you donâ€™t do or say anything, itâ€™s not real compassion.”
“If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.”
“All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.”
“The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.”
“If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.”
“It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.”
“If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.”

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