The best Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The best Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.
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Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
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That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.
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The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
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It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?
Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
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"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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If you are happy, happiness will come to you. Because happiness wants to go where happiness is.
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'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight
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Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
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Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!
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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Happiness is like lightning, blink and you miss it. After that came the fall. When you reach heaven the fall is devastating.
Tokyo in Money Heist - Season 3 Episode 7
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In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
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But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there.
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Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.
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Peeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."
Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
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Life is full of small, perfect moments.
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Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
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The beauty of a moment, is that it's fleeting.
Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 Episode 14
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I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.
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I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived.
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Dear Karen,
if you're reading this, it means I actually worked up the courage to mail it. So, good for me. You don't know me very well, but if you get me started, I have a tendency to go on and on about how hard the writing is for me. But this... this is the hardest thing I've ever had to write.

There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it. I met someone. It was an accident. I wasn't looking for it. I wasn't on the make. It was a perfect storm. She said one thing. I said another. Next thing I knew, I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

Now there's this feeling in my gut. She might be the one. She's completely nuts in a way that makes me smile. A great deal of maintenance required. She is you, Karen. That's the good news. The bad is that I don't know how to be with you right now. And that scares the shit out of me. Because if I'm not with you right now, I have this feeling we'll get lost out there. It's a big, bad world full of twists and turns and people have a way of blinking and missing the moment... the moment that could've changed everything.

I don't know what's going on with us and I can't tell you why you should waste a leap of faith on the likes of me... but, damn, you smell good, like home. And you make excellent coffee. That's got to count for something, right?

Call me.

Unfaithfully yours,
Hank Moody
Hank Moody in Californication - Season 2 Episode 10
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The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery - today is a gift - that's why we call it present!
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I wish I could stay in this moment forever. But then it wouldn't be a moment.
Maxine Caulfield in Life is Strange
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Time is like a river, you cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life!
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For some of us, there's only today. And what you do today matters. In the moment. And maybe into infinity. I see only my greatest hits. I see the things I want to remember, and being remembered for. That's when I realize that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over, they still go on. They are the meaning.
Samantha in Before I Fall
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Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
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One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
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The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.
During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

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