"Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens."

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Source : David Steindl-Rast (2010). “Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day (Large Print 16pt)”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

David Steindl-Rast

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“Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.”
“But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.”
“To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.”

Source : Ernest Kurtz (2010). “Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous”, p.131, Hazelden Publishing
“Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.”
“Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.”
“If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after all, the client is being asked to do the same thing. It has a kind of a quality of two human beings in the same situation, really, working through these psychological processes. And yeah, you hired me; I'm working for you as a therapist. But I'm not up here and you're down there. And what you're struggling with, at other times and with other areas I'm struggling with.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy”, p.9
“I try to stay in gratitude as much as I can. You know, we all get to the point where we're frazzled, or tired, or frustrated, or whatever it is, but I try to take those moments and realize that I do have so much to be grateful for, and allow it to send me back to those feelings of gratitude and just live in gratitude as much as I can.”

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