"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts."

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Source : Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

Alain de Botton

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“I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.”
“When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?". At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?". I wish I knew.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.9, Delacorte Press
“And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.”
“The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!”
“All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.”
“I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to make films with a lot of action. They all know that I'm very good at action scenes, but I tend to not use many, so they're all frustrated with me. But I do that intentionally. Yes, if I do a movie with a bunch of action, it's going to be a lot more successful than the types of movies I'm making right now. The producers often say, "Instead of using all these philosophical phrases, why don't you change this into an action scene?" But I intend to continue to make these movies.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our lifeâ€™s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall thinkâ€”in point of fact, we always do chooseâ€”and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have”

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