“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
– Shel Silverstein
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Life isn’t about – George Bernard Shaw
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw
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Schedule your priorities – Stephen Covey
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
– Stephen Covey
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Persuasion – Thomas Babington Macaulay
“The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.”
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
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I will be happy if – Jonathan Cainer
“Would you like to know one of the most dangerous phrases in the language? It is the one that goes, ‘I will be happy if…’ Every time we utter such a comment, we make ourselves into a hostage to fortune. It hardly matters what you are hoping for, the fact that you will be ‘happy if’ implies that you will be unhappy ‘if not’. We must always take care not to let our happiness be dependent on any development. Priority number one for you, is to allow yourself to be happy, regardless of how things turn out.”
– Jonathan Cainer
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Choose a desirable state – Lisa Ames
“All we ever truly have, is the state we are in… at any given moment. And I added how it makes sense, therefore, to remain mindful and choose a desirable state”
– Lisa Ames (or Lisa White)
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Perspective – Margaret Atwood
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, crisscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“There are unknowable forces in this universe that I’ll never understand, and none of us will ever fully understand, and I hold these forces in great reverence, and to that degree I am religious.”
– Albert Einstein
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Reason – John P. Morgan
“Because we can reason, doesn’t mean there is one.”
– John P. Morgan
“Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.”
– Mark Twain
“The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.”
– Eric Sevareid
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Control – Deepandmeaningless
“Control is just a button on a keyboard.”
– Deepandmeaningless
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Journalism – George Orwell
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
– George Orwell
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You matter to people – Kuldeep Brar
“Act as if you’re already loved, safe and secure. You matter to people.”
– Kuldeep Brar
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A thousand tiny surrenders – Robert Brault
“You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.”
– Robert Brault