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Richard Carlson

"The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency"."

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

Richard Carlson

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“The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.”
“Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.”
“I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing.”
“I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.”
“A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.”
“Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.”
“Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.”
“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

Source : Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

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