"The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking."

-- Mark Ravenhill

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“Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.”
“Say 'Kenmore Square'," I insist. "Kenmaw Sqway-ah." "Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.'" "Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.'" "You're doing that on purpose." "I'm not. I sway-ah.”

Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.133, Penguin
“Nothing is more important than to war on war.”
“To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.”
“Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.”
“Bills are simply invoices for blessings you've already received. Pay them with gratitude and circulate prosperity.”
“A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.”

Source : "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.
“I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.”

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