"If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.”

Source : "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.
“I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.”
“The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.”
“Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.”
“Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.”
“Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.”
“People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.”
“I just wanted it to be American.”

Source : "Harmony Korine causes discord" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2007.

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