"One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way..."

-- Isabelle Eberhardt

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“When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.”

Source : Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.39, Conari Press
“Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.”

Source : Source: nordic.businessinsider.com
“Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.”
“There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.”
“a white person who claims to have no impediment of vision in this country is not, I think, telling the whole truth. And when it comes to race relations, not telling the whole truth about the fog one inhabits slows down the work of groping forward.”
“There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.”
“Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.”
“I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.”

Source : "Lyricist Tim Rice Enjoys Career Revival; David Crosby Writes Book on Music and Charity; Wise Guys of 'Falcone' Come to CBS". "Showbiz Today" with Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. April 3, 2000.

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