"There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people."

-- Mary Lou Retton

#Attitude Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence, and give the salutary impression that they don't care ten cents whether you are amused, affronted, intrigued, or bored stiff by them. Hardly anybody asked me how I liked Vermont. Not a soul said 'Have a nice day!”
“Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.”
“How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.”

Source : Doc Lew Childre, Bruce Cryer (1998). “Freeze-frame: One Minute Stress Management : a Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health”, p.6, HeartMath
“No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.”
“In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.”
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”
“Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.”
“I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.”

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