"I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place."

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Source : Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.6, OUP Oxford

Herodotus

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“Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?”
“I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.”
“My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.”
“The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90”
“We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.”
“Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.”
“The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. Thatâ€™s how I see football, thatâ€™s how I see life.”

Source : "Football's debt to socialism" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2010.
“Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.”

Source : "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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