Eric Barker Quotes
Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
Quotes to Explore
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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I write in the studio.
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
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Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.
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Oh, I am in love with life!
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Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
