"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight."

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Source : Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Real Thing”, p.65, Faber & Faber

Tom Stoppard

#Happiness Quotes #Weight Quotes #Equilibrium Quotes

“Your Texas is no different than my Texas.”
“We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.”
“Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.”
“The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.”
“We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.”
“I don't give advice. 90% of the time nobody takes it anyway. I will give encouragement and if asked a question as to how, or why I did certain things and if I think this will help whomever is asking the question I will do this.”
“At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.”
“In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.”

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