Happy Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause. — James Wallace

(Bonus points if the presentation is already available via a TED Talk, and they still asked you to perform in person.) — Anonymous

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving? — George MacDonald

Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has been created in the moment - including your body. And when you find that place, there is peace beyond description. Because then you accept that you are the eternal being that you are. — Esther Hicks

Holy crap, this is Dynasty except British with a better wardrobe and set in the early 1900s, I whispered to the TV. — Kristen Ashley

I had been raised a musician, but I was surrounded by artists. — Kiera Cass

Even for a meth addict. She was sleeping — James Patterson

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. — Jay Baruchel

For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in summer from falling in love with the human. — Clive Barker

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within. — Bill Vaughan

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — J.M. Coetzee

It's easier to believe in things after dark. — Alette J. Willis

In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds. — John Of The Cross

We have almost all had the experience of gazing at the full moon. But those of us who are neither astronomers nor astronauts are unlikely to have scheduled moongazing appointments. For Zen Buddhists in Japan, however, every year, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese lunisolar calendar, followers gather at nightfall around specially constructed cone-shaped viewing platforms, where for several hours prayers are read aloud which use the moon as a springboard for reflections on Zen ideas of impermanence, a ritual known as tsukimi. Candles are lit and white rice dumplings (tsukimi dango) are prepared and shared out among strangers in an atmosphere at once companionable and serene, a feeling thereby supported by a ceremony, by architecture, by good company and by food. — Alain De Botton