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Laura Harvey
"Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts." --
Source : "Letting Go: How to Release the Past" by Laura Harvey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.
Laura Harvey
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“My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!”
Source : "Twenty Questions for Mama Cass" by Frederick Todd in American Girl magazine, June 1970.
“Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.”
“We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.”
“I've had asthma my entire life.”
“a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.”
“Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.”
Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster
“[School reports] were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.”
“Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.”