"Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy."

-- Shawn Achor

#Beautiful Quotes #Mean Quotes #Successful Quotes

“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.66, Macmillan
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
“My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.”
“Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.”
“I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity”
“In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would celebrate their contributions to the field and to the world.”
“I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.”
“For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.212, Seven Stories Press

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