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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#becomes #better #climbing #expands #finer

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#earthquake #god #hearing #imperfect #language

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#accomplish #anything #beliefs #certain #certainty

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#fact #follow #i #i think #jaded

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy. ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#been #broken #down #happy #i

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#enjoy #enjoy life #life #most #part

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#birds #books #fly #hands #high

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#cat #floor #him #his #just

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#divide #forget #i #into #read

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#care #consisted #cow #ease #either