"In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds."

-- Ari Kiev

#Adversity Quotes #Odds Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Until you know who you are you canâ€™t write.”
“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”
“I`m pretty sure there is no such thing as God,”

Source : Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.148, Penguin
“Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.”

Source : Song: Sleep Through The Static, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008
“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”
“But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?”
“I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .”
“What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.”

Source : Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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