"Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no."

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Source : William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry”, p.18, Harper Collins

William Glasser

#Needs Quotes #Failing Quotes #Should Quotes

“Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.”
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours”

Source : The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Iâ€™m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.”
“It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.”

Source : 'Bagpipe Music' (1938)
“You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.”
“No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.”
“It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.”
“Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men.”

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