"The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child."

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Source : Ellen Key, Mamah Bouton Borthwick (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

Ellen Key

#Happiness Quotes #Children Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.”
“If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.”

Source : J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing
“The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.”
“To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.”
“The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.”
“Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.”
“I love, and the world is mine!”

Source : Florence Earle Coates, “Songs”
“You need a danger to be safe in.”

Source : Frederick Seidel (2014). “Ooga-Booga: Poems”, p.38, Macmillan

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