"The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy."

-- Oliver Burkeman

#Sadness Quotes #Insecure Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.”
“If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.”
“America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for...”

Source : "Cindy Sheehan Unplugged". Cindy Sheehan's speech at a rally to honor Lynne Stewart at San Francisco State University, archive.frontpagemag.com. April 27, 2005.
“Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.”
“You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.”

Source : "John Simm interview: 'I don't really do awards'" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.
“Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”
“Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.”
“The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.”

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