"Surely joy is the condition of life."

-- Henry David Thoreau

“You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.”
“Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.”
“It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.”
“I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.”
“Always remember... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.”
“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source : Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”
“I became more curious about the story behind the story [in the House of Cards]. So what was really going on behind the headline? And it's a little bit sad that that show, it doesn't seem so much like entertainment the way it did back when we started doing it.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

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