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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch

Happiness Matter Being Busy Busy Everyday Unconcerned Self Most Mode Being Ordinary Lively Consciousness

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit. Ishmael Beah

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A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born. Iyanla Vanzant

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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating. J. G. Ballard

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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down. Jack Canfield

Day You Every Day Matter Fall Action Down Every Tree Oak Take Powerful Steps Know Identify Priorities Redwood Go Five Intend Move Your Forward Each Each Day Initiatives Eventually Ax

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. James Lane Allen

Great Thoughts You Vision Will Become Fall Whatever Controlling Rise Small Remain Results Environment Ideal Dominant Escape May Cannot Your Aspiration Present Desire

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself. James Lee Burke

You Yourself Nothing Rejection Inventory Like Make

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. James Thurber

Time You Fool People Too Much Too Much Many

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. Jean Houston

Laughter Universe Flung Possibilities New New Possibilities Height Kaleidoscope

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. Jessamyn West

Change Easier Facts Fit Than Preconceptions Want Ignore

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Joan Didion

Own Claims Shapes He Remembers Most His Itself Forever Place Loves Radically Whoever Hardest Image Belongs

We all survive more than we think we can. Joan Didion

Think More Survive Than

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart. John Burroughs

Heart Light Longest Cheerful Goes Human Human Body Body Rider Riders

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. John Burroughs

Winter Better Air Sharper Sounds

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs

Life Day Thoughts Walks Think Too Books Find See Take Read Still Friends Short Want Each Each Day

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. John Burroughs

Life Nature Three Resources Books Say Constant Name Most Greatest Always Least Were Hand Friends Precious Should

Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness. John Bytheway

Courage Laziness Mental Mental Toughness Toughness Self-Control Match Curiosity Against

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. John Galsworthy

Man Nothing Else Sum He His Done Actions

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. John Henrik Clarke

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People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning. John Ralston Saul

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