"I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent."

-- Joseph Addison

#Optimism Quotes #Mind Quotes #Mirth Quotes

“Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.”
“English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.”
“In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.”
“I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.”
“I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come.”

Source : Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall
“Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.”
“Nana...how come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...”

Source : "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.
“In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.”

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