"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~"

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Norman Vincent Peale

#Happiness Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”
“I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”
“Tyranny is always weakness”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32
“somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.”
“So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.”

Source : Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.149, Jacana Media
“I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Aug 26, 2011
“One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.”

Source : Louis Althusser, François Matheron, Olivier Corpet (2006). “Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87”, p.268, Verso
“If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.”

Source : Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

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