Lehar Land Quotes & Sayings

For a man's life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness. — Anatole France

There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing. Your body knows precisely how to shape itself around the ache, the hollowness that wants to be filled — Leah Raeder

[T]he unknown should not be a source of suspicion, fear, or retreat to superstition, but motivation to continue asking questions and seeking answers. — Neil Shubin

Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you. — Stephen Kinzer

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security. — Alexander Hamilton

Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgement shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. — Charlotte Bronte