"Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on."

-- Michael Clayton

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“The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.”

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he thought he would like this moment to be forever: the dark-haired woman on shore calling for their safety, the girl who had once jumped rope like a queen, now holding him with a fierceness that matched the power of the oceanâ€”oh, insane, ludicrous, unknowable world! Look how she wanted to live, look how she wanted to hold on.”
“Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.”
“People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.”

Source : Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.244, Macmillan
“Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.”

Source : Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.203, Penguin
“I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.”
“When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.”
“I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.”

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