"There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure."

-- Victoria Glendinning

#Giving Quotes #Bliss Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.”

Source : "2011: The Year of Curiosity" By Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.
“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.”
“It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.”

Source : Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Prized”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
“In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.”

Source : Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.110, Shambhala Publications
“The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.”

Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1
“It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall scheme of things, it proves that men can do about anything they want to if they work hard enough at it, and I knew that I could do it . . . and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to.”
“I think I am pretty much melancholic.”
“As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â€“ and particularly bad luck it is.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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