"Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price."

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Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.216

Sarah Josepha Hale

#Happiness Quotes #Art Quotes #Different Quotes

“Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you donâ€™t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.”
“You know you are in love when you are willing to share your cash-machine number.”
“A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.”
“The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.”
“Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?”
“All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.”
“I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.”
“My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.”

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