"Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives."

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Source : Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.325, Random House

Eric Weiner

#Meaningful Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Happy Life Quotes

“To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe”
“Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.”
“You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.”
“Don't ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling.”
“I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.”

Source : "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.
“In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.”

Source : Stephen Charnock (1874). “Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God”, p.308
“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”

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