"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Inspirational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Freedom Quotes

“I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.98, Anchor
“What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.”

Source : Swami Rama (2002). “Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully”, p.34, Lotus Press
“We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.”
“I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.”
“We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.”

Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics
“There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.”
“I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.”
“The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.”

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