"When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook."

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Charles Simic

#People Quotes #Finding Happiness Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.”
“We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.”

Source : John Howard Griffin, Thomas Merton (1970). “A hidden wholeness: the visual world of Thomas Merton”, Mariner Books
“Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of it." An alcoholic's wife might wish her husband would stop drinking...On examination of her beliefs, she may discover she was frightened of not achieving her own goals and actually encouraged the alcoholism so she would not have to face her own failure.”
“Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.”
“I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!”
“I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.”
“Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.”
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”

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