"Womenâ€™s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there arenâ€™t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. Itâ€™s a goal you pursue your whole life."

-- Sonja Lyubomirsky

#Children Quotes #Careers Quotes #Goal Quotes

“I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.”
“What's life if you're not enjoying it?”
“Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill.”

Source : Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.22, New Directions Publishing
“Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.”
“That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.”
“Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.”
“I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.”

Source : "I prefer birdsong to chatter". Interview with Helen Birch, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

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