"There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place."

-- Douglas Pagels

#Laughter Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Heart Quotes

“But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.”
“What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.
“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”
“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”
“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”
“Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.”
“I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.”

Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.281, Univ of California Press
“Men and women do not posses visions of the future. They are possesed by them.”

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