"Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for."

-- Silken Laumann

#Gratitude Quotes #Lying Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.”
“There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!”

Source : "Fictional character: Captain Christopher Pike". "Star Trek", TV Series (1966–1969). "The Cage", www.imdb.com. 1986.
“Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.”
“You cannot endure what you never enjoy!”
“I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.”
“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.”
“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools ...”

Source : Miss Read (1977). “Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village”
“It is the doom of men that they forget.”

Source : "Fictional character: Merlin". "Excalibur", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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