"No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously."

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Source : Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

Dave Barry

#Inspirational Quotes #Balance Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015
“I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it.”
“The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.”

Source : 1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England.
“There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the 1981 Charleston County High-School Debate Tournament. And whatever became of that county champ who argued in favor of tractor safety modifications? Last time I checked, she didn't have her own show.”
“The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.21, Pan Macmillan
“A bird in a cage is not half a bird.”
“To me, Miami is like Hell and I'm Osiris when it comes to music - I'm underrated and I came through with this rare sound. "East" means east of Miami, which is South Beach. So I'm the "Osiris of the East", I became my own god in music, and I took over South Beach.”

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