"Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment."

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Source : John James Ingalls (1902). “A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations”

John James Ingalls

#Happiness Quotes #Acquisition Quotes #Environment Quotes

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.”
“Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.”
“Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.”
“The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.”
“A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.”
“If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.”
“When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 08, 2013
“Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.”

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