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“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”
Source : Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe, Jason Wright (2008). “The Christmas Sweater”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
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“Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in, and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed.”
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“It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.”
Source : "Music: It's in your head, changing your brain" By Elizabeth Landau, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.
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“Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.”
Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
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“We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.”
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“As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.”
Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.
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“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Source : "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas, II-II, q. 26, art. 6, 1265 - 1274.
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“Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.”
Source : Polly Horvath (2008). “My One Hundred Adventures”, p.23, Schwartz & Wade