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In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. — Mary Kay Ash

Who I was ad who I had beed disconnected, leaving me stranded somewhere in the middle. — Alexandra Bracken

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity. — Josef Pieper

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due. — Josef Pieper

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole. — Josef Pieper

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking. — Napoleon Hill

I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. — Rick Springfield

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good. — Josef Pieper

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way. — Josef Pieper

An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way. — Ricky Schroder

The "supreme good" and its attainment
that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness. — Josef Pieper

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good. — John C. Maxwell

The greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. — Josef Pieper

Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity. — Josef Pieper

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues. — Josef Pieper

I like Chekov a lot. — Pierce Brosnan

Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person. — Josef Pieper

Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear. — Josef Pieper

Boys will be boys, but girls are supposed to be careful: of our bodies, of our futures, of all the ways people judge us. — Jenny Han

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will. — Josef Pieper

I'm not bossy, I'm the boss. — Anonymous

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed. — Josef Pieper

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. — Peter Diamandis

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.] — Josef Pieper