"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

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Source : "How to Be Happy: Why You Should Never Settle for 'Good Enough' in Your Life" by Kristen Houghton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

Maureen Dowd

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“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
“All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.”

Source : Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Mistress of Husaby: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.180, Vintage
“I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.”
“This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.”

Source : Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”
“I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were stage actors. I think indirectly I wanted to do it because of them. My grandfather would tell me stories about Tennessee Williams and actors he worked with in New York. He had such a respect for acting and such a love for storytelling about that world. I grew up hearing him tell tales of it.They were never encouraging me or discouraging me to take part. They were always feeding me with theater.”
“People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.”

Source : "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
“I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.”
“It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.”

Source : Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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