"If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesnâ€™t have to be validated."

-- Herman Koch

#Giving Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Needs Quotes

“My SUV, assuming Hummer comes out with a model for those who find the current ones too cramped, will look something like the Louisiana Superdome on wheels. It'll guzzle so much gas as I walk out to my driveway there will be squads of Saudi princes gaping and applauding. It'll come, when I buy it, with little Hondas and Mazdas already embedded in the front grillwork.”
“I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.”

Source : John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'”
“I don't ask my wife to face Michael Holding, so there's no reason why I should be changing nappies”

Source : "The Open, Ian Botham, European Cup goals and Damon Albarn on target". www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2015.
“Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.”

Source : Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall
“Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?”
“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”
“That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.”

Source : "The Black Keys on new album, rabid fans and Lana Del Rey". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. May 13, 2014.

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