#joys

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ↗

— Walter Winchell

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Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#denying #economic #economic independence #feminism #get

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play. ↗

— Jason Kidd

#being #big #enjoys #involved #key

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. ↗

— Ali Akbar Khan

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#even #feel #get #himself #need

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#again #biggest #biggest lesson #come #families