"Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt and resentment. It is amazing how many occasions present themselves in which I can choose gratitude instead of a complaint."

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Henri Nouwen

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“You were lookinâ€™ at me like you wanted to kiss me.â€ I force a laugh. â€œYeah, right,â€ I say sarcastically. â€œNobodyâ€™s watchinâ€™ if you want to, you know, try it. Not to brag, but Iâ€™m somewhat of an expert.”
“It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.”
“The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.”

Source : "The dangers of a closed mind" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.
“For me it's much more like a little kid rebelling. The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life. I come from the business side and Mark comes from the creative side, but every time a decision came up about Creep it was two emails, and we agreed. I've not had that ever with someone on the creative or the business side.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.”
“From the shadow of domes in the city of domes, A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all There was to it.”
“My fame is due to broadcast television.”
“Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.”

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