"Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Dog Quotes #Voice Quotes #Water Quotes

“Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?”
“Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.”

Source : "People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism". Book by Penny Lernoux, 1989.
“I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.”
“When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.”
“The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.”
“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”
“we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.”
“In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.”

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