"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."

-- William Tecumseh Sherman

#Christmas Quotes #Cities Quotes #Civil War Quotes

“I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'”
“Always look for common ground, but don't ever be afraid to choose sides.”
“Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.”
“What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.”
“Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.”
“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”
“I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page.”
“A good teammate is someone willing to get outside of personal thoughts and emotions, a friend who tries to understand, appreciate, and encourage other members of the team.”

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