"Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness."

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Source : David Hume (1888). “Letters of David Hume to William Strahan”

David Hume

#Reading Quotes #Journey Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.”
“I love Claw Money. They always send me stuff. I always wear their sweatpants.”
“There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.”
“Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.”

Source : Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.60, Bantam
“I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.”
“One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?”
“My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.”

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