“Our discontent has grown roots, and these faithless limbs, once fluent, relearn old affections.”
– Kim @selfmyths
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So what – Andy Warhol
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say. “So what.”
– Andy Warhol
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I shall revenge myself – John Steinbeck
“I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.”
– John Steinbeck
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What we are – William Shakespeare
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
– William Shakespeare
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What you see – Henry David Thoreau
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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What we achieve inwardly – Plutarch
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
– Plutarch
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A friend who cares – Henri J.M. Nouwen
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Anything can happen – Shel Silverstein
“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