"Thatâ€™s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity."

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Source : "The Successful Woman : How You Can Have a Career, a Husband, and a Family - and Not Feel Guilty About It" by Joyce Brothers, (p. 18), 1988.

Dan Ariely

#Lessons Quotes #Want Quotes #Break Quotes

“A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "Isn't that beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. With a friend we don't have to say or do something special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us.”
“I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.”

Source : "Grizzly Man", 2006.
“Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.”
“Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.”
“As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.”
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”

Source : "Self-Care" by Pratibha, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2016.
“Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.”

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