"Though we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer."

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Source : Judy Tatelbaum (2013). “You Don't Have to Suffer: A Handbook for Moving Beyond Life's Crises”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Judy Tatelbaum

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“The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate. There's a line in Jonathan Franzen's essay "Perchance to Dream" about how "the rich lateral dramas of local manners have been replaced by a single vertical drama, that of commercial generality." I wanted to examine that great homogenizing force that came in during the '90s, since Hollywood seemed a place where it was particularly active.”
“I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.”
“We don't have to pretend to be something that we're not.”
“We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.”
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”
“Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.”

Source : "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.
“Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses I. Finley (Second Edition), Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 6, 1985.
“Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.”

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