"We can't wait until everything is OK-with us or with the rest of the world-to feel thankful, or we will never experience joy at all."

--

Source : M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.124, Conari Press

M. J. Ryan

#Gratitude Quotes #Joy Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Needing and getting donâ€™t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.”
“I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.”
“Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.”
“I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.”
“For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-bo rder cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.”
“We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.”
“Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word...”

Source : "Art since 1940, strategies of being". Book by Jonathan Fineberg, copyright Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.

You may also like:

Cheryl Richardson
Author
Dawna Markova
Author
Jack Canfield
Author
James Allen
Writer
John Gray
Author
Richard Carlson
Author
Susan Jeffers
Psychologist
Sylvia Boorstein
Author
Wayne Dyer
Author