"Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly."

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Source : Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

Liz Miller

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“Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.”
“Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.”

Source : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.
“Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.”
“Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.”
“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.”
“Often people say they can't base their strategies on customers because customers make unreasonable requests and because customers vary too much. Such opinions reveal serious misconceptions. The truly outside-in company definitely does not try to serve all the needs of its customers. Instead, its managers are clear about what their organization can and should do for customers, and whatever they do they do well. They focus.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Johan was more than just a great soccer player. He was a role model who promoted world peace. He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal - Jews, Muslims and Christians - that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism.”

Source : "Shimon Peres Pays Tribute to Late Dutch Soccer Legend Johan Cruyff". www.haaretz.com. March 24, 2016.

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