“119. Happy is the spirit that becomes free of all matter and is stripped of all at the time of prayer.”
Chapters on Prayer
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François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.
“… because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.”
Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942) French novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz
Source: Suite Française
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
As quoted in Willem de Kooning, MOMA Bull, pp. 7, 6
1950's
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
William McKinley (1843–1901) American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901)
Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
1900s
“It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.”
John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. X, p. 268
Matka Tereza (1910–1997) Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
As quoted in Love, A Fruit Always In Season : Daily Meditations from the Words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1987) http://books.google.com/books?id=GqcnHzdPwPcC edited by Dorothy S. Hunt <br class="br">1980s