"Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on indirectness, avoidance of conflict and keeping things close to your chest. So that has led to quite a lot of cultural misunderstandings in dealing with this East Asian culture I live in."

-- Sean Michael Wilson

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“Maybe, through the stories I share about my life and others and the medical research that has been dedicated to the world of positive psychology, they'll relate to the power of a positive perspective and change the world one person at a time. Pipe dream, of course, but I love the thought of being given the chance to inspire!”

Source : "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.”
“Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.”

Source : Elizabeth Kata (1965). “A Patch Of Blue”
“We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.”
“I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.”
“I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.”
“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.”
“Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do”

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