#extract

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#being #being happy #common #common things #extracting

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#declare #extracting #friend #gems #hours

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#country #equality #european #extraction #farming

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. ↗

— Bob Pettit

#bush #extracts #heal #many #sick

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#bring #circular #convinced #even #experience

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. ↗

— Bono

#brought #coal #cost #environment #extraction

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#extract #good #human #human nature #inherent

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#exhausted #extracts #forgotten #give #greater

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#equal #extract #indulge #live #money