"Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act."

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#Positivity Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.”
“I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list.”
“I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.”
“How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.”
“Frugality, quite simply, is about choosing the things you love enough to spend extravagantly onâ€”and then cutting costs mercilessly on the things you donâ€™t love.”

Source : Ramit Sethi (2009). “I Will Teach You To Be Rich”, p.97, Workman Publishing
“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had â€œbecome a lesbianâ€â€”but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poetâ€”and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.”

Source : "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.
“I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.”
“Questions about acting are difficult.”

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