"The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Happiness Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Clear Quotes

“Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Aug 09, 2013
“One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.”
“So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!”

Source : FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 23, 2013
“Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.”

Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan
“Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner!”
“I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.”
“Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.”
“If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.”

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