"Happiness is wanting what you have."

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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.”
“My life was definitely going into a nosedive. When my parents separated (and) divorced when I was fifteen, I definitely lost my bearings and was completely out of control. My grades were plummeting. I had no direction. I was a pretty angry teenager (and) somewhat destructive. So, I broke down in a church when I was 18 and turned my life over to God, thankfully.”
“What I most fear now is that within a century or so there may not be any human future at all.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.”
“If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.”

Source : "Iraq: Bush, not Saddam, should quit". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2003.
“The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.”
“But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.”

Source : "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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