"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

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Source : 'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2

Ben Jonson

#Friendship Quotes #Positive Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“I accept the fact that I'm going to miss it sometimes. I just hope I miss it where I can find it.”
“Best things in life aren't things.”
“Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.”
“Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.”
“We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.”
“Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?”
“Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.”
“I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.”

Source : "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September, 1997.

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