"I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."

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Source : Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.24, Penguin

Sonja Lyubomirsky

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“The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.”
“Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.”
“If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.”
“When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.”

Source : "House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon plays a solid hand". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.
“Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.”
“Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.”
“I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.”
“National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.118, Univ of California Press

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