Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
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'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the torment that these two people put themselves through in their efforts to try and find happiness and try and stay together, actually.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
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Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
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Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
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To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
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I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
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When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
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Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.
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The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it’s quality.
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Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
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If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
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Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
