"It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because……" — Margaret George
"It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is. When it is present, it seems to be eternal, abiding forever, and there is no need to examine it or clutch it. Later, when it has evaporated, you stare in dismay at your empty palm, where only a little of the perfume lingers to prove that once it was there, and now is flown."
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28 Quotes by Margaret George
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Kindness is stronger than iron bars.
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Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
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It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see…
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We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and…
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When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying…
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In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being…
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What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.
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I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them…
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under…
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
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Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection…
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk…
— Lester R. Brown
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these…
— John Astin
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a…
— Michel Foucault
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
— Emile M. Cioran
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.…
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