"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

-- Jean Paul

#Happiness Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.”
“Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.”
“Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.”
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
“The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.”
“I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.”
“If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.”

Source : Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.15, Arktos
“Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.”

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