"Is anyone anywhere happy?"

-- Sylvia Plath

#Happiness Quotes

“Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writingâ€”and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?”

Source : "Danger" by Rick Bass, www.narrativemagazine.com. 2011.
“When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.”

Source : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
“It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.”
“The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.”
“I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part.”
“A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.”
“Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.”

Source : Beverly Engel (2002). “The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing”, p.246, John Wiley & Sons

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