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“if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.”
Source : Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.50, Penguin
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“As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.”
Source : "Former Apple CEO John Sculley on the consumer revolution in healthcare". Interview with Halle Tecco, venturebeat.com. July 31, 2013.
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“I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.”
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“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
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“He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.”
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“If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.”
Source : Carvel Emerson Collins, Georges Simenon (1956). “Georges Simenon: An Interview on the Art of Fiction”
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“Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
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“All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.”