"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."

-- Maya Angelou

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #People Quotes

“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
“If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.”
“Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.”

Source : 'Games People Play' (1964) ch. 18
“A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.”
“Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.”
“Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says, "Criticism is a service industry." I take that very seriously. I do the research so I can tell you interesting things. It's not condescending, it's educational.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.”
“The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I donâ€™t have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever Iâ€™m headed, I know itâ€™s exactly where Iâ€™m supposed to be.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.159, Penguin

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