Pleasure and pain are the great objects of desire and aversion: but these are distinguished not by reason, but by immediate sense and feeling. If virtue, therefore, be desirable for its own sake, and if vice be, in the same manner, the object of aversion, it cannot be reason which originally distinguishes those different qualities, but immediate sense and feeling.

— Adam Smith

Adam Smith Quotes

The Good Gardener planted each of us here for a reason.

— Seth Adam Smith

A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty.

— Seth Adam Smith

This is the miracle of all miracles – when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic.

— Seth Adam Smith

Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.

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Our home is a belonging place.

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Every man, woman, and child on this earth is a wandering pilgrim in his or her own way – each searching for a belonging place. That sense of belonging is found only as we care for one another.

— Seth Adam Smith

You don’t lose yourself being selfless – you find yourself.

— Seth Adam Smith

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

— Seth Adam Smith

Fear is destructive and defeating, but faith is constructive and creative.

— Seth Adam Smith

Life is not trying to entertain us, it’s trying to teach us.

— Seth Adam Smith

Fear finds an excuse while faith finds a way.

— Seth Adam Smith

We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react.

— Seth Adam Smith

But in the midst of our greatest pains we can find comfort and encouragement in the fact that others with similar struggles have successfully gone before us.

— Seth Adam Smith

If you’re feeling discouraged and defeated – don’t quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play – even in the midst of incredible darkness – can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

— Seth Adam Smith

Likewise, I know that if you continue to move forward – however slow your pace might seem – you will conquer your darkest canyons and your tallest mountains.

— Seth Adam Smith

Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

— Seth Adam Smith

We always have a choice. Only you can decide what you become.

— Seth Adam Smith

Only you can decide what you become.

— Seth Adam Smith

That woman’s been riding the same broomstick for almost a hundred years.

— Seth Adam Smith

But though, in establishing perpetual rents, or even in letting very long leases, it may be of use to distinguish between real and nominal price; it is of none in buying and selling, the more common and ordinary transactions of human life.

— Adam Smith
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