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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. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.


Robert G. Ingersoll

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the same generosity
you give to others.
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time and energy. The harder
it is to give, the more
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you have to give.
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of being, it usually still requires
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make the choices that will
support your commitment.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Be courageous in your
decision-making.
Stand by your choices
and never look back.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Don’t rely on the opinions of others.
Only you will know what is
right for you.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Unless you have the
courage to say ‘no’ to
the things you don’t want,
it’s ha...
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you can be unless you know
who you r...
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everything is going your way.
When the going gets tough,
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the right thing for you,
even when it feels like the
hard...
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granted. Be proactive about
maintaining and sustaining it<...
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being self-ist and being selfish—
putting yourself fir...
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take responsibility for your
happiness is you.
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takes courage. You need to own
your decisions and have the
...
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commitment you will ever make
is to being the best you can be.
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and okay with okay.
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can...
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integrity. Do the right thing,
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your commitment, re-evaluate
your commitment to them.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Identify your driving motivation
and you will have all the
encouragement you need.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Give the people you love the
best of yourself, not the worst.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Sometimes being happy will
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"...
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that ho...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL What has religion to do with facts? Nothing
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument hi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart a...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perditi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and g...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromi...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, n...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be k...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell y...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to b...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of th...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart l...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and do...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, hav...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and be...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name i...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servan...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in p...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Basti...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of in...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the unive...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and ou...
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