"The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice."

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Source : Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

Nhat Hanh

#Happiness Quotes #Trust Quotes #Confidence Quotes

“genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.”
“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
“I don't like piano solos.”
“It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.”
“One of the few nice things about [time in Yale] was you got to know people before there were labels on them, so you got to know them as people, not as either gay or straight. Because as far as we knew, we thought everyone was straight.”
“In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.”

Source : Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”
“We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.”
“People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.”

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