"I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience."

-- Sara Blakely

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“I developed a long time ago some habits. One of them is what I call "divert daily, withdraw weekly, and abandon annually." Divert daily is everyday you do something that's not work-related. You do something that relaxes you. Then you withdraw weekly. The Bible says every seven days you take a day off. And then abandon annually means you just go out and forget it all.”
“Do I want an ice cream bar with my name on it? You're DAMN right!”
“I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.”
“Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.”
“Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin GluÂ«Â ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.”
“Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam
“Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?”
“I think the good part of the crisis is that finally, everybody is going to have to come to the table. That means the mayor's office, the board (of supervisors), the labor council, the chamber, small business. You end a recession healthier than you were when you went into it.”

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