"Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it."

-- Mitch Albom

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“I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”
“Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.”
“Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.”
“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
“Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.”
“My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.”

Source : "Carl Barron Live". Comedy, 2003.
“A good marriage is worth fighting for.”
“Great knowledge brings great sorrow.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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