"How come pleasure never makes it on to...……" — Ellen Goodman
"How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?"
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43 Quotes by Ellen Goodman
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
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Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for…
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe…
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.…
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The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
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I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence…
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Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.
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She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.
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What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The…
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It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to…
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More Dutiful Quotes
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the…
— Joseph Butler
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I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.
— Emily Watson
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To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity,…
— Josephine Hart
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director,…
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's…
— Joseph Campbell
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Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful…
— Chanakya
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By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the…
— Wilhelm Frick
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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