#Fall Quotes #House Quotes #May Quotes
“Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.”
“Between labor and play stands work. A man is a worker if he is personally interested in the job which society pays him to do; whatfrom the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his point of view voluntary play. Whether a job is to be classified as labor or work depends, not on the job itself, but on the tastes of the individual who undertakes it. The difference does not, for example, coincide with the difference between a manual and a mental job; a gardener or a cobbler may be a worker, a bank clerk a laborer.”
“The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.”
“I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.”
“My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.”
Source : Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.51, St. Martin's Press
“9/11 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to frighten people, pass legislation, sound tough and coerce us into giving away our rights in pursuit of phantom problems.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Reading brings us unknown friends”
“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.”
Akhenaton Pharaoh
Alexander the Great Military Commander
Darius I King
Herodotus Historian
Moses Prophet
Pericles Greek Statesman
Solon Statesman
