"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."

-- Polly Toynbee

#Happiness Quotes #Pain Quotes #People Quotes

“Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.”
“I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.”

Source : Meera Syal (1996). “Anita and Me”, Indus
“All the things that are worth doing, take time.”
“Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.”
“Love the skinny model chicks but I prefer the thickness.”
“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”
“Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation.”
“I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.”

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