"We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire."

-- Alain de Botton

#Believe Quotes #Order Quotes #Giving Quotes

“To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.”

Source : Simon Ramo (2005). “Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings: Getting Things Done when People are Involved”, Amer Bar Assn
“I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.”
“The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...”
“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
“Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.”
“[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.86
“I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose, which I embrace without delay. I focus only on today with respect to my goals, trusting that all of my tomorrows will work out well.”
“I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.”

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