Collecting Things Quotes

• Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.

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  Anuj

  Self   Collecting Things   Progress  

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• I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

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  Nate Berkus

  Believe   Home   Collecting Things  

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• You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

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  Isabel Allende

  Collecting Things   Half   Firsts  

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• Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

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  Jeff Tweedy

  Song   Writing   Thinking  

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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  Anais Nin

  Inspirational   Motivational   Positive  

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• When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

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  Tim Freeman

  Gun   Collecting Things   Drug  

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• Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

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  PJ Harvey

  Collecting Things   Littles   Little Things  

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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• Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.

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  Rod Dreher

  Sex   Good Life   Party  

  Rod Dreher (2010). “Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots”, p.12, Crown

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• Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.

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  Kesh

  Collecting Things   Space   Want  

  Source: www.elle.com

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• People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

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  Dalai Lama

  Collecting Things   People   True Happiness  

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational   Motivational   Positive  

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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