"The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess."

-- Alexander Kotov

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“I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.”
“Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure. Instead, we cling to our To Do lists and sacrifice our health and well-being for the sake of others. Then, when we feel deprived of our basic human need for relaxation and enjoyment, we turn to food as our sole source of pleasure. When we then try to deprive ourselves of food through dieting, we deny the last bit of pleasure we have in our lives. And that strategy never works!”
“I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.”
“... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.”
“They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.”
“The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.”

Source : "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.
“Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?”
“After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.”

Source : "5 Questions with Essence Atkins on Pregnancy, Marriage and Finding Love Online". Interview with Lathleen Ade-Brown, www.essence.com. October, 21, 2011.

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