quotes about Lasting Happiness

“Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.”

“If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.”

“I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.”

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340

“Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.”

“L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

“A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.”

“All you've got to do is keep your ears open.”

“The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.”

“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”

Source : Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin (2005). “The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.108, Regnery Publishing

“I wish I could stop but I could not. I had no other thrill or happiness.”