"A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within."

-- George Santayana

#Happiness Quotes #Nature Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen.”
“Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual.”
“Happiness flourishes where there is happiness.”
“I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.”
“Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.”
“The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.”
“The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad logical quality to which the epithet metaphysical is commonly applied; and nothing can clear it up but a severe course of logic.”
“We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.”

Source : Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

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