"We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness."

-- William Penn

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“The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.”
“I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.”

Source : "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, 1954.
“There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.”
“Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful”
“Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.”
“One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past.”
“We all know that something is eternal. And it ainâ€™t houses and it ainâ€™t names, and it ainâ€™t earth, and it ainâ€™t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet youâ€™d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. Thereâ€™s something way down deep thatâ€™s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN”

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