#pin

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. ↗

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#finds #fulfillment #happiness #life #purpose

As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#citizen #destiny #duty #expose #german

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#because #controls #country #courses #forces

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#also #better #better place #conservative #could

What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger. ↗

— Carrie Jones

#coping-with-death #death #fight #gone #grief

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. ↗

— Doris Humphrey

#impinge #incomparable #itself #movement #movements

I told you you’d come", said a nearby voice, one Isobel knew well. "You said you would." (…) "You shouldn’t have, though", he said, and looked up, his face twisted with anger. "Even if we knew you would, you shouldn’t have." He got up and began moving toward her. "Why", he growled, "when we will only show you we are not worth it? Why, when we have no other choice but to prove to you we’re not worth it? ↗

— Kelly Creagh

#isobel #pinfeathers #varen #anger

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#chosen #civilization #compatible #god #happiness

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. ↗

— Janis Ian

#day #end #end of the day #get #go

I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.
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— Dora J. Arod

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships