“events only become experiences through the interest that we take in them: if they do not interest us, we are making nothing of them.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow...”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

“The fact is that love is of two kinds—one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Tarzan must act quickly or his prey would be gone; but Tarzan's life training left so little space between decision and action when an emergency confronted him that there was not even room for the shadow of a thought between.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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