"Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity."

-- Statius

#Cheerful Quotes #May Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.”

Source : "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February, 2012.
“Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.”
“Chaplin is no businessman”
“To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.”
“I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.”
“No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.”
“Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted themselves. How can you make a great - or even an adequate - bouillabaisse if you've never had any? If you don't really understand why people read mysteries - or romances or literary novels or thrillers or whatever - then there's no way in the world you're going to write one that anyone wants to publish. This is the meaning of the well-known expression "Write what you know."”
“There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.”

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