"those who despair of life are not long for it."

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Elizabeth Janeway

#Long Quotes #Despair Quotes

“Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.”

Source : Sharon Salzberg (2011). “The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Programme for Real Happiness”, p.15, Hay House, Inc
“I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being an over-believer in spiritual or in paranormal matters.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I remember back in the day, when Jordan wore the 7s, something magical always happened. He always performed at high levels, but it was something different when he laced up the 7s. Some of the Jordans still have that juice that MJ left in them, and the 7 is one of them.”
“Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?”
“When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture: Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual : a Course of Lectures”
“Love is the outreach of self toward completion.”
“Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.”

Source : "Search Results The United States: An Experiment in Democracy". Book by Carl L. Becker, 1920.
“Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.309

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