"Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger."

-- Alan Cohen

#Guilt Quotes #Calm Quotes

“For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.”
“Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?”

Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.227, Hachette UK
“I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.”
“For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.”

Source : John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage
“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.”
“My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.”
“No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.”
“Hold fast to youth and beauty.”

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