"Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that."

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Source : "Elvis Costello: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 2003.

Elvis Costello

#Cookies Quotes #Fortune Quotes #Deeper Quotes

“There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.”
“Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.”

Source : Lewis Mumford (1928). “Architecture as a home for man: essays for architectural record”
“Patience is the First Lesson.”
“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone elseâ€™s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone elseâ€™s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House
“Families and businesses are tightening their belts to make ends meet - and Washington should too.”

Source : "Learning Deficits" by Robert L. Borosage, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.
“I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.”
“The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated â€“ with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. [â€¦] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”

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