"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."

-- Benjamin Spock

#Inspirational Quotes #Positive Quotes #Happiness Quotes

“We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.”

Source : "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.
“I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.”
“If I close my eyes forever will it all remain unchanged?”
“Nature is not a drag on growth. Its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development”

Source : "Why the economy needs nature" by Tony Juniper, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2013.
“We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvanaâ€”analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.”
“I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!”

Source : Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com
“All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?”
“But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.”

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