"Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness."

-- Dalai Lama

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“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.”
“Bigfoot loves celebrities. You just have to bring celebrities that Bigfoot loves. It would probably be just gorgeous women.”
“To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.”
“I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!”
“The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.”
“Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.”
“We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so now we're great and we're untouchable'. It's a reality check for a few guys and that's a good thing at this time so it doesn't happen on June 12 (when the U.S. team opens World Cup play against the Czech Republic).”
“When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.”

Source : Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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