Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Happiness
First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure the Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams (1749)
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Constitution, Corrupt, First Principles, Happiness, Law, Liberty, manners, Neither, People, Samuel Adams, Secure, Universal, Wise
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Realize That True Happiness Lies Within You
“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Contentment, Effort, Give, Happiness, Happy, Have, Hug, Joy, Og Mandino, Other, Outside, Peace, Perfume, Reach Out, Realize, Share, Smile, Thought For the Day, Time, True, Waste, Within, Yourself
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: Care of Human Life and Happiness and Not Their Destruction Is the First and Only Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Care, Destruction, First, Good, Government, Happiness, Human Life, Object, Only, Thomas Jefferson, Thought For the Day
Leave a comment
First Principles: Religion, Morality and Knowledge Are Necessary To Good Government and the Happiness of Mankind
“Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” – Mananasseh Cutler, in Article III of the Northwest Ordinance
First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Constitution, Corrupt, First Principles, Happiness, Law, Libety, manners, People, Samuel Adams, Secure, Univeral, Wise
Leave a comment
To Find Happiness
I think maybe a bit dour… To Find Happiness by Michael Romani I have been fighting to survive From the day I was born Struggling just to stay alive To find happiness and not be forlorn I have walked each … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Anchor, Bend, Bliss, Born, Care, Cross, Depend, Destroy, Empty, Fault, Fight, Forlorn, Forward, God, Guard, Happiness, Mask, Numb, Oblivious, Onward, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Press, Reason, Struggle, Survive, Touch, Toward, Vain, Walk, Will, Wish
Leave a comment
First Principles: Our Motives To Act In Life Should Be the Relief of the Distressed; the Detection of Frauds; the Defeat of Oppression; and the Diffusion of Happiness
“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Action, Defeat, Detect, Disfuse, Distressed, First Principles, Fraud, Happiness, Life, Motive, Nathanael Greene, Oppression, Relief
Leave a comment
Between Heaven and Earth
A whisper of a prayer… Between Heaven and Earth by Michael Romani Between Heaven and Earth There is a gate Between light and dark There falls a shadow Between faith and sin A whisper speaks a prayer My deepest confession … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Between, Birth, Confession, Dark, Death, Earth, Faith, Fall, Gate, God, Happiness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven, I, Know, Lie, Life, Light, Live, Love, Miracle, Mistake, My, Night, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Remorse, Right, Self, Shadow, Sin, Sorrow, Strength, Weakness, Whisper, Wrong
Leave a comment
First Principles: It Is the Influence of Christianity That Has Brought Civil Freedom and Social Happiness Which Mankind Enjoys
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys…. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Blessing, Christianity, Civil Freedom, Fall, First Principles, Flow, Government, Happiness, Influence, Jedidiah Morse, Kind, Mankind, Overthrown, Pillars, Republican
Leave a comment
