Sarah Trimmer quotes

“Happiness is the sense that one matters.”
-- Sarah Trimmer

#Inspiration Quotes #Matter Quotes

“O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.”
-- Sarah Trimmer

Source : Sarah Trimmer (1825). “Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer: With Original Letters, and Meditations and Prayers, Selected from Her Journal”, p.117

#Age Quotes #Wish Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing.”
-- Sarah Trimmer

Source : Sarah Trimmer (1864). “The Robins, Or, Domestic Life Among the Birds: With Anecdotes of Other Animals”, p.78

#Purpose Quotes #World Quotes #Should Quotes

“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”

“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

“More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.”

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”

“No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives”

“Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.”

“If you understand 'it' will come, then you'll understand 'it' will pass. No matter what happens, you can make it. Trust me, you can.”

“No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.”