"Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up."

-- Anne Lamott

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“We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening-a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.”
“Wealth is what you take from the world; worth is what you give back.”

Source : Mark Goulston (2006). “Get Out of Your Own Way at Work--and Help Others Do the Same: Conquer Self-defeating Behavior on the Job”, p.248, Penguin
“The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.”
“Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!”
“Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.”
“Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.”
“I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.”
“When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.”

Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.5, Tharpa Publications US

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