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“The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Interesting #People #World
“The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Marriage #Earth
“If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Running #Rain #World
“In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Jesus #Important #Events
“To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Friendship #Dog #Blessing
“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Happiness #Attitude #Book
“Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Business
“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Life #Thinking #Interesting
“There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Inspirational #Funny #Life
“In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Business #Three #Assumption
“One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Secret #Curiosity #Intellectual
“PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Beautiful #Wall #Mind
“The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Life #Respect #Justice
“A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Cat #Water #Body
“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Life #Disease #Century
“At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Thinking #People #Mind
“God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Stars #Ocean #Son
“Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Love #Happiness #Music
“If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Sunset #Firsts #Succeed
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Hope #Respect #Students
“A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Life #Views #Climbing
“A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Cat #Games #Play
“One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Dream #Appreciation #Appreciate
“My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Religious #War #Mind
“You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Jobs #Home #Honor
“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Book #Mean #Past
“I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Art #Museums #Generosity
“How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Education #Wall #Order
“Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Marriage #Sacred #Fine
“Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.”
-- William Lyon Phelps

#Honesty #Would Be #Reputation

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