"If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy."

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Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.23, BookBaby

Chris Prentiss

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Goal Quotes

“What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.”
“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”
“The goal of our lifeâ€™s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.”
“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
“As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.”

Source : "Discovery: Kaya Scodelario" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.
“Armel shrugged. "I suppose so, Brother, but why do creatures have to fight?" Demple picked Mudge up and placed him on his shoulder. "Because there's always good and bad in the land, and goodbeasts have to protect their friends an' families from evil ones who want nothing but to conquer an' destroy.”
“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”
“Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.”

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