Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.


Arthur C. Brooks

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The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider...
C. JOYBELL C.
Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We ...
C. JOYBELL C.
What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C.
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,...
C. JOYBELL C.
Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C.
As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C.
When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C.
Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C.
I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C.
For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!
C. JOYBELL C.
Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C.
You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C.
Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C.
I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to fi...
C. JOYBELL C.
It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people...
C. JOYBELL C.
Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs t...
C. JOYBELL C.
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th...
C. JOYBELL C.
If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned...
C. JOYBELL C.
In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am alr...
C. JOYBELL C.
She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew...
C. JOYBELL C.
They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of t...
C. JOYBELL C.
You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, al...
C. JOYBELL C.
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte...
C. JOYBELL C.
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have...
C. JOYBELL C.
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C.
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- ...
C. JOYBELL C.
There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage cer...
C. JOYBELL C.
You're going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that...
C. JOYBELL C.
A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside you...
C. JOYBELL C.
People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't ...
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Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.
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The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wr...
C. JOYBELL C.
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that so...
C. JOYBELL C.
If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and eve...
C. JOYBELL C.
Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something...
C. JOYBELL C.
The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
C. JOYBELL C.
We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never...
C. JOYBELL C.
Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the...
C. JOYBELL C.
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The onl...
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I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love...
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