by Profit Prophet | Mar 16, 2022 | Government, Happiness, Negatively, Patron, Produced, Punisher, Restraining, Society, Uniting, Vices, Wants, Wickedness
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a...
by Profit Prophet | Feb 27, 2022 | Center of Gravity, Destroyed, Disappointing, External, Foundation, Happiness, Loses, Man, Ordinary, Places
“The ordinary man places his life’s happiness in things external to him, so that when he loses them or finds them disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed. In other words, his center of gravity is not himself.” –Arthur...
by Profit Prophet | Nov 28, 2021 | Attention, Butterfly, Chase, Elude, Happiness, More, Other, Shoulder, Sit, Softly, Things
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” –Henry David Thoreau
by Profit Prophet | Sep 28, 2021 | Ages, Body, Corruption, Danger, Earliest, Enjoyed, Freedom, Happiness, History, Inordinate, People, Political, Power, Thirst, Within
“From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been a people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad. It is from...
by Profit Prophet | Sep 15, 2020 | Experience, Good, Happiness, Happy, Holy, Now, Observation, Only, Others, Reason, Science, So, Taught, Time, Trinity, Way
“Reason, observation and experience; the holy Trinity of science, have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.” –Robert Green Ingersoll
by Profit Prophet | Apr 3, 2020 | Distance, Feet, Foolish, Fools, Grows, Happiness, Under, Wise Man
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”–J. Robert Oppenheimer(click picture to enlarge)
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