"The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs."

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Source : Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.113, Hazelden Publishing

Melody Beattie

#Inspirational Quotes #Crazy Quotes #People Quotes

“I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.”
“Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.”
“So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.”
“A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind faith faith in yourself won't hurt a thing. All the bastards in the world will snicker and sneer because they haven't the talent to zip up their flies by themselves. To hell with them, particularly the critics. Stand in there, son, no matter how badly you are battered and hurt.”
“I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.”
“There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.”

Source : Interview with Paul Rudd, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.
“I think the problem is, if we foreclose any public justice, then we cut off the virtuous cycle that's represented by law, where there are public decisions which then deter misconduct in the future. We need to have both. We need to have private dispute sy-, systems, and we need to have public dispute systems.”
“I'm really glad my food comes murdered.”

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