"We are all going through some sort of struggle, so I try to keep that in mind when someone makes me angry. I also know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day."

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Source : "Joshua Radin, Singer-Songwriter: So Much To Say, So Much To Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

Joshua Radin

#Struggle Quotes #Choices Quotes #Being Positive Quotes

“The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness-many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.”
“If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.”
“For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.”
“The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and freedom in the comfort of their condos.”
“He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and thatâ€™s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.”
“Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, [Alexander] Archipenko and things of that sort, [Jacques] Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style.”
“Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.”
“When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.”

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

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