"We come to feel as we behave."

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Source : Paul Pearsall (1997). “Write Your Own Pleasure Prescription: 60 Ways to Create Balance & Joy in Your Life”, p.107, Hunter House

Paul Pearsall

#Human Nature Quotes #Feels Quotes #Behave Quotes

“A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.”
“Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.”
“I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.”

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“I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.”
“I think itâ€™s because there's quite a few of us now but because weâ€™re less frequent than American actors - because Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones itâ€™d be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.”
“A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That's the kind of thing winning traders do.”
“A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”
“For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name ...”

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