"I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change."

-- Gretchen Rubin

#Two Quotes #Made Quotes

“Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.”
“Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.”

Source : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company
“There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves democracy. I'm all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.”
“Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.”
“People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am â€” I'm white!”

Source : "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2005.
“I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.”
“We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.”
“Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.”

You may also like:

Betty Liu
News anchor
BrenÃ© Brown
Author
Charles Duhigg
Writer
Chris Guillebeau
Author
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Martha Beck
Author
Robert Rubin
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Professor
Sandra Day O'Connor
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States