"It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances."

-- Ed Diener

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #World Quotes

“On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.”
“Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.”

Source : John Buchan (2016). “RICHARD HANNAY Complete Collection – 7 Mystery & Espionage Books in One Volume (Unabridged): The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast, The Three Hostages, The Island of Sheep, The Courts of the Morning & The Green Wildebeest”, p.1471, e-artnow
“Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.”

Source : "James Scott’s Violent Landscape". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2014.
“You can't keep putting out the same record, it has to be better than the last thing you did. You have to find out what sucks, you have to stop doing what sucks... you've gotta find out what you're doing right, and you've gotta do more of that.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.”
“I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing something that's quite precise over here, working the puppet, and I'm doing something that's very imprecise and creative and unleashed over here, which is the comedy side. And it's kind of nice to allow your brain to be doing those two things at once.”
“It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.”
“One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.”

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