"No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift."

-- Josef Pieper

#Gratitude Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the imminent passage of a government-distributed "guaranteed income" or "negative income tax."”
“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?”

Source : Song: Over the Rainbow
“It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.”
“There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.”
“In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.”
“I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.”

Source : Sue Miller (2014). “While I Was Gone: rejacketed”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.”

Source : "Breyer: Political Attacks Threaten Court Independence", www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2005.
“Fools are wise until they speak.”

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