"The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best"

-- Russell Simmons

#Happiness Quotes #Keys Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.”
“This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 oâ€™ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so Iâ€™d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hipposâ€™ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me.”
“The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.”

Source : Storm Constantine (2004). “The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure: The First Book of the Wraeththu Histories”, p.454, Macmillan
“If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.”
“No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.”
“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”

Source : Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn
“I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.”
“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.”

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