"Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages."

-- Gregg Easterbrook

#Gratitude Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Grateful Quotes

“Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.”

Source : "Online Extra: The Free Market's "Softer Side"". Interview with Lee Walczak, www.bloomberg.com. March 17, 2005.
“If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!”
“I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.”
“Iâ€™ve won his heart, but itâ€™s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And itâ€™s not really marriageâ€”not like the marriage you have with Camâ€”until heâ€™s willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.”
“An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.”
“I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.”
“I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only ***** make that kind of distinction.”

Source : "The GQ&A: Rob Corddry". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. July 21, 2011.
“All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Why I Am Not a Muslim”, p.11, Prometheus Books

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