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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#drive #extent #follow #get #good

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#finances #financial-planning #fool #foolish #hoarding

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american women #bewildered #faces #maps #most

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business. ↗

— Ric Flair

#business #i #i can #more #punishment

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#been #catch #completely #constitution #had

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#monstrosity #punished #seek #those #who

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#deformity #secrets #ugliness #beauty

He is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and it's not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. It's the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like he's saying, 'Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?' Except this boy is dead, and the unnaturalness of it makes me want to pull my hair out with Tate and Narnie and Fitz and Jude's grief all combined. It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, 'You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#grief #life #sadness #beauty

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true! ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#age #am #anyone #ask #business

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ↗

— James Thurber

#around #awareness #back #fear #forward