"When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness."

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Source : Ariel Gore (2010). “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness”, p.123, Macmillan

Ariel Gore

#Skills Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Balance Quotes

“Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.”
“But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.”
“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took ***** intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.”
“It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.”
“I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.”
“Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.”

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