"Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it."

-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#Positivity Quotes

“There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility of anyone in authority in this country, you have the torture program, that NSA surveillance is Edward Snowden's fault, just like proliferation of weapons is these kids' fault. It's ridiculous, there's never any consequences, there's never any lessons learned.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.”
“There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.”
“God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.”

Source : "Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology". Book by Jules Chametzky. Chapter: "Jewish Humor", p. 318, 2000.
“The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.”
“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.”

Source : "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 41-42), 1982.
“If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.”
“Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so many times given the incredible range of acting they have on there; I mean, incredible storytelling and the incredible production values.”

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