"Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness."

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Source : Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013

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“...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.”
“Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.”
“Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free”
“Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect ...”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”
“I always wish I'd had more mentors, better mentors, wiser mentors, people who were proper professional working musicians to guide me as I was coming up.”
“The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control”

Source : "The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control". William Binney's speech at the conference organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2014.
“I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.”

Source : "Lawmaker calls Buffett's bluff". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2012.
“Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time, I might have wanted to be an actor or performer, and it somehow fulfills that in a non-threatening way.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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