"How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place."

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Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2006). “The Right Attitude to Rain”, p.7, Anchor

Alexander McCall Smith

#Thinking Quotes #Moments Quotes

“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”
“Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!”
“The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.”
“Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter are overwhelmingly more common, compromising about 87 percent of all stroke events.”

Source : "Olive Oil Cuts Stroke Risk?" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2011.
“For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board.”
“And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.”
“In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.”
“There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.”

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