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“If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.”
Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.23, BookBaby
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“In like a dimwit, out like a light.”
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“The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?”
Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan
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“I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.”
Source : Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.
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“I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.”
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“In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.”
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“If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.”
Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.17, Knopf Group E-Books
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“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.”