Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I'm definitely still wild at heart.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
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I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
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I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.
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Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.
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Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.
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You do what you like because you just follow your curiosity, and you are happy when you find new things about nature, about how things work around us and inside us.
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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
