"What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are."

-- John Mason Brown

#Joy Quotes #Bigger Quotes #Immersion Quotes

“Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.”

Source : "Former Penn State President Graham Spanier Speaks". Interview with Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. August 21, 2012.
“Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too....”

Source : Joyce Cary (1958). “First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth”
“Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.”
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”

Source : Thomas Mann (1934). “Joseph and His Brothers”, New York : A.A. Knopf
“Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2009). “The Dragonfly Pool”, p.65, Penguin
“I never knew about a lot of the outside things”
“There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.”
“Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.”

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