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A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#pessimism #phsychology #realism #social-sciences #life

Jesus' whole life was a lesson in Truth where the rubber meets the road." ~R. Alan Woods [2007] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#lesson-for-life #lesson-in-life #lessons-for-man #modeling-behavior #r-alan-woods

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#life-lessons #mess #people #life

…esa América que tiembla de huracanes y que vive de amor, hombres de ojos sajones y alma bárbara, vive. Y sueña. Y ama, y vibra, y es la hija del Sol. ↗

— Rubén Darío

#español #hispanic #life

New beginnings always had something special—starting at the bottom and making it to the top produced something magical. When you reach your destination, your goal, that’s when it really hits home. Maybe that’s why I felt the way I did. I knew I was just a kid, but eventually I’d become something much more. Eventually I’d be at the top. Someday. ↗

— Alex Rogers

#inspirational-quotes #life #life-lessons #purpose #home

It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man with a winning smile and twinkling hazel eyes, who's happy to fill you in on his life's story and wants you to like him - odd to think this man is cruising around with a loaded pistol, making up his mind about which bank he'll soon rob.' - Richard Ford, Canada ↗

— Richard Ford

#crime #fiction #literary #imagination

From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next...I shall do good. I shall do His work if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling. Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am. I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#job-hunting #life-mission #perplexity #life

That’s the first thing that strikes an American woman about Europe – that it’s unsanitary. Impossible for them to conceive of a paradise without modern plumbing. If they find a bedbug they want to write a letter immediately to the chamber of commerce. ↗

— Henry Miller

#humor #life #paradise #life

Is there not one thing in your life that was worth losing everything for?" "You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us, there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place... While you, like the wind... Will never know yours! ↗

— Sean Connery as El-Raisuli the Magnificent

#life

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#humanity #individuality #life #life