"When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy."

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Source : James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

James Redfield

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“The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.”
“The real investment in life is not so much in the house you have, or the car. Your real investment is what you carry in the heart, and if you carry that passion for anything that you do, then nothing can really stop you. You enjoy the greater moments of everything,”

Source : "Explorer Mike Horn: Your Real Investment In Life Is Not Your House Or Your Car" by Alison Zaslav, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2014.
“I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.”
“What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?”
“The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.”
“And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.”

Source : Cy Twombly, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1987). “Cy Twombly: Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen”

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