"As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom."

-- Milan Kundera

#Choices Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Desolation Quotes

“We have a stewardship responsibility to keep ourselves healthy physically and emotionally. If we don't, we cannot carry out our obligations to God, to family, to our employer, or to others. With this in mind, we put limits on the extent to which we allow others to abuse us. Doing right will mean abuse part of the time; that goes with the turf. But inviting abuse or failing to deal with it is wrong.”
“Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.”

Source : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books
“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”
“Oh I get it...You're looking for the quickest way to the hospital, huh? ~Train Heartnet”
“I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence - we are, each and every one of us - the being called Mercy.”

Source : "Mercy". Book by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Johnson, 1993.
“Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.”
“I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.”
“Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated,”

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