Simply Happy Podcast Quotes & Sayings

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it, — Lina Bo Bardi

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others. — Pico Iyer

People wonder who is who,
Everyone is different - even you! — Christina Engela

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read. — Alain De Botton

Alessandro Volta, an Italian count and the inspiration for the eponym "volt," demonstrated this back around 1800 with a clever experiment. Volta had a number of volunteers form a chain and each pinch the tongue of one neighbor. The two end people then put their fingers on battery leads. Instantly, up and down the line, people tasted each other's fingers as sour. — Sam Kean

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. — James Whistler

Without new money, salaries wo n't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they wo n't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay. — Martin Schulz

Decisions, they shape our destiny. — Ruta Sepetys

In teen years, people yearned to be liked; in their twenties, to be impressive; in their thirties, to be needed — Tom Rachman

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall. — Mark Zandi

It is not always easy, for a woman alone. — Jude Morgan

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken. — Thomas B. Macaulay

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive. — Frederick Buechner

I saw at least one analysis of the experiment where the author seemed to find it perfectly plausible that if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana. — Jon Ronson

My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur. — Farshad Asl