#sons

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #life-lessons #love

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#convinced #dancing #everybody #family #father

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#learned #lessons #loss #our #out

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. ↗

— Alan Watts

#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#america #appointed #army #committed #cooperation

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. ↗

— Chuck Close

#around #especially #experience #having #her

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know? ↗

— Ethan Coen

#just #know #like #music #piece

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#forced #i #lessons #piano #piano lessons