"You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy."

-- Celeste Ng

#Make You Happy Quotes #Force Quotes #Feels Quotes

“What's next for me? I don't know. So I'm in exactly the same boat as many of you.”

Source : "Blumenthal, Thune, Kinzinger". "Face the Nation", www.cbsnews.com. May 25, 2014.
“Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some reason, it's taking a lot longer in music than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. It was almost acceptable by the 19th century for female writers to be published, yet it's only in the last couple of decades, since about 1980, that historical female composers have really emerged.”

Source : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
“The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.”
“Ultimately, I don't know if love is an organizing principle we choose or if it's innate. I'm not sure the distinction matters to me much anymore; I just care about how we can reduce unnecessary suffering. I think that means learning to love in both the micro and the macro; engaging in ethical action at the level of intimacy and friendship, but also at the vocational level through our chosen work in the world, our right livelihood.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I have to wear six pairs of speedos when I run.”

Source : "Leading Mannequins" by Molly Young, www.gq.com. April 11, 2012.
“My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something like that at some point, and they are usually right. But I think children also do their best while being raised. Finding family "happiness" is a fine balancing act.”
“Socrates should have written comics.”

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