"If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#Joy Quotes #World Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.”
“The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.”
“Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.”

Source : Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.126, Totus Tuus Press
“We send these birthday wishes for your special day, one that brings a world of love and joy and happiness your way.”
“Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.”
“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.”
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.”

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