Lisieux Hardwood Quotes & Sayings

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people. — Narendra Modi

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot. — Phillip Lopate

I'm always "shopping," because I think it's important to know what's out there. — Erin Wasson

More than wanting you for myself, I want you to have a good life. — C.D. Reiss

It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there. — Edwidge Danticat

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down. — Nick Harkaway

Christian Hedonism is a philosophy of life built on the following five convictions: The longing to be happy is a universal human experience, and it is good, not sinful. We should never try to deny or resist our longing to be happy, as though it were a bad impulse. Instead, we should seek to intensify this longing and nourish it with whatever will provide the deepest and most enduring satisfaction. The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God. The happiness we find in God reaches its consummation when it is shared with others in the manifold ways of love. To the extent that we try to abandon the pursuit of our own pleasure, we fail to honor God and love people. Or, to put it positively: The pursuit of pleasure is a necessary part of all worship and virtue. That is: The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. — John Piper

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. — Socrates