O. Carl Simonton Quotes
Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.
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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.
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Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain
