"Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for."

-- Oprah Winfrey

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“They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.”

Source : Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.4, Pan Macmillan
“If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.”
“I learn more about how to run a set teaching six-year-olds. You go into a classroom as a teacher, and the most important work you do is create an infrastructure and an environment that's safe, in which children will feel able and free to take risk. Working with actors, you have to establish the same thing. Teaching a class is not so different than mounting a production.”
“I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.58, Everyman's Library
“This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.”
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”
“I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.”
“I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.”

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