Overath Jersey Quotes & Sayings

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote. — Amity Shlaes

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"I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my forehead. "I know it, Sassenach, and so do you. You were meant to be a mother, and I surely dinna intend to let anyone else father your children. — Diana Gabaldon

I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air and what I see every day, and I think we all do. — Veena Sud

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort. — James Weldon Johnson

a beginner is not a worker, but a finisher is. — Mariam

If Cosmic Ordering isn't for you, shape yourself so it is. — Stephen Richards

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it. — E.F. Schumacher

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production. — Simone Weil

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. — Steven Holl

The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God. — Dallas Willard

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life. — Elaine Pagels