"If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic."

-- Paul Hawken

#Focus Quotes #Trying Quotes #Pessimistic Quotes

“When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?”

Source : "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.
“Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!”
“It's incredible how the human body is. That it could do so much. That it can go beyond the everydayness of life; That it can be extraordinary and powerful, and harbor a spirit of hope and pure will.”
“All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1973). “Girlhood”
“Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.”
“Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.12, Beacon Press
“Honestly, I grew up with Disney.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are as many ways of living a good life as there are people living lives.”

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