"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit."
- Hosea Ballou
Happiness
"Disease is the retribution of outraged nature."
- Hosea Ballou
Health
"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
- Hosea Ballou
Joy
"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."
- Hosea Ballou
Philosophy
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy