"If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available."

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Source : Eric Swanson, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (2010). “The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness”, p.249, Random House

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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“Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.”
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.”

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“Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.”
“We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.”
“Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.”
“There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.”
“You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.”
“You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.”

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