"Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door."

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Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.555, Ravenio Books

Tryon Edwards

#Happiness Quotes #Doors Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.”
“We moralize among ruins.”
“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.”
“Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.”
“So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.”

Source : sir Benjamin Thompson (count Rumford.) (1796). “Essays, political, economical and philosophical”, p.35
“We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.”
“As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.”
“Photography is an empathy towards the world.”

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