David Shi quotes
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“Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.”
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“As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.”
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“Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace.”
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“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”
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“It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.”
-- David Shi
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“The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.”
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“Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.”
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“Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.”
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“An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.”
Source : 1935 Uncommon Law,'Fox-Hunting Fun'.
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“I'd rather stimulate your mind than emulate your purpose”
Source : Song: The Guidelines, 1998
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Source : "Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.
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“Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.”
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Source : Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins
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