"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

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“...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It brings calm and contentment. It lifts your levels of happiness and hope. Gratitude will amplify your positive recollections about times past, and in turn sets the stage for optimism about the future.”

Source : Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional
“A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..”
“I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.”
“Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.”

Source : Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.73, Vintage
“I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.”
“I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'”
“Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeÂ—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?”
“Moral: It all depends.”

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