"There is no higher happiness than peace."

-- Jack Kornfield

“Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.”
“Life is good - we forget that.”
“The problem is, when you depend on a substitute for love, you can never get enough.”

Source : Louis Cozolino (2014). “The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company
“In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resultedâ€”Balder, Persephoneâ€”but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.”
“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”
“I learned to avoid trying to catch up or double up to recoup losses. I also learned that a certain amount of loss will affect your judgment, so you have to put some time between that loss and the next trade.”
“If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.”
“We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.”

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