"Suspicion of happiness is in our blood."

-- E. V. Lucas

#Happiness Quotes #Blood Quotes #Suspicion Quotes

“Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.”
“My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.”
“They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.”
“On the lips of my enemy, my sisterâ€™s lover, my loverâ€™s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.”
“it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.”
“The more passions you have the happier you'll be”
“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”
“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”

Source : Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

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