"If reality is not what you want it to be, change it."

-- Hannu Rajaniemi

#Reality Quotes #Want Quotes #What You Want Quotes

“The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.”
“It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's â€˜jee-ah.â€™ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that â€˜J.â€™ And then the â€˜A-Hâ€™ kinda just flows.”
“Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
“It is on account neither of God's weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good of patience would not exist without the evil of persecution; nor the good of preservation of life in a lion if not for the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.”
“I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.”
“Gratitude helps us to return to our natural state of joyfulness, where we notice what's right instead of what's wrong. It makes us feel complete, that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.”

Source : M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.2, Conari Press
“My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.”
“Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.”

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