"Life is short, so live extra lives. Read books."

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Shannon Hale

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“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”
“We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.”
“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.”
“We've all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief: denial, anger, bagaining, depression and acceptance. Â By contrats, I realized, happiness has four stages. Â to eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”

Source : "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.
“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”
“I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.”
“Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.”
“You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish and salad, it's easy to lose your willpower.”

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