"[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore."

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Source : Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.24, HarperCollins

Gretchen Rubin

#Long Quotes #Way Quotes #Easy Quotes

“You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Mar 02, 2013
“Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.”
“In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.”

Source : Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.102, University of Pennsylvania Press
“I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.”

Source : Song: Dirty Weekend, Album: Blondes Have More Fun
“I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land! * * * * * Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my stand To lib and die in Dixie.”
“I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform.”
“The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.”

Source : Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, AEI Press
“I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails...”

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