"By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it."

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Source : Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

Matthieu Ricard

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“I just got really desperate to pay rent. It was weird, man. I had to wrestle a fake ***** off a crack head once.”

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“Great ideas are not charitable.”

Source : Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf
“The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.”
“Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. There are tales that are older than most countries, tales that have long outlasted the cultures and the buildings in which they were first told.”
“Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'”
“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”
“Solitude is separate experience.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.219, eBookIt.com
“I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.”

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