Frederic Ozanam quotes

Frederic Ozanam quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.”
-- Frederic Ozanam

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“The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.”
-- Frederic Ozanam

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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.”
“The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.”

Source : Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”
“Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.”
“God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.”
“If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.”
“A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.”
“At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.”

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