"Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens."

-- Pico Iyer

#Motivational Quotes #Book Quotes #Feel Better Quotes

“Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.”
“Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?”
“Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.”
“I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.”
“For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.”

Source : Helen Steiner Rice (1973). “Everyone needs someone”
“I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.”
“We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.”
“I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.”

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