"Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want"

-- Randy Pausch

#Happiness Quotes #Success Quotes #Peace Quotes

“People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.”
“When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.”
“Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.”
“We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.”

Source : "Cleric: US threats, fruits of insanity". Press TV, October 2007.
“If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.”
“They [Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May] both went to state schools, they are both women, hey, that's pretty quirky for the Tory party. Isn't this the new sort of Tory party ?”
“It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.”
“Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you're lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you're important helps you to make a difference to to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you're valuable and that you have a special place in the universe is a serene spiritual joy in itself.”

Source : Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”

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