"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation."

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Andre Gide

#Beautiful Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.154, 1st World Publishing
“After all, what was more important, in the end, than love?”
“The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!”
“Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.”
“Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.”

Source : Arnold Kling (2004). “Learning Economics”, p.295, Xlibris Corporation
“If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?”
“Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.”
“I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.”

Source : "Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie". Book by Mark Allan Jackson, 2007.

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