"True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods."

-- Aristotle

#Happiness Quotes #Flow Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
“The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.”
“You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.26, Image Continuum Press
“The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.”

Source : 'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'
“Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.”
“Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.”

Source : "Film review: 'Religulous' - comic on a crusade" by Mick LaSalle, www.sfgate.com. October 3, 2008.
“Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?”
“Every champion has discovered that pain is seasonal. It will pass... Don't be discouraged by it. A New Day is about to dawn in your life!”

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