"It's about thinking that being blond & slim & perfect will automatically bring you happiness, & then discovering that life is as full of as many disappointments as there were before."

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Jane Green

#Disappointment Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.”

Source : "Run Like Adrian Peterson". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. November 14, 2011.
“You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.”
“Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least.”

Source : "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.
“I join all of you who are advocates telling others that they can improve their lives and the quality of their lives and others by taking a few moments, breathing, and allowing one's whole being to become a vessel for positivity.”
“I'm not part of the history, I am the history.”
“If you could really accept that you weren't ok, you could stop proving you were ok. If you could stop proving that you were ok, you could get that it was ok not to be ok. If you could get that it was ok not to be ok you could get that you were ok the way you are. You're ok, get it?”
“Knowledge is the life of the mind.”
“I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear â€œno,â€ and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.”

Source : Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.228, Dell

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