"Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause."

-- Rick Warren

#Stress Quotes #Roots Quotes #Causes Quotes

“Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.154, Granta Books
“Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.”
“My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian”
“You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.”
“What's important for me is staying healthy.”
“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.”

Source : Letter to his son, in Harold Nicolson Dwight Morrow (1935) ch. 3
“In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.”
“There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

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