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[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.


Jean Vanier

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time and energy. The harder
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the other p...
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you have to give.
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of being, it usually still requires
some doing if it is to b...
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make the choices that will
support your commitment.
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decision-making.
Stand by your choices
and never look back.
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Only you will know what is
right for you.
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI Unless you have the
courage to say ‘no’ to
the things you don’t want,
it’s ha...
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You can’t be the best
you can be unless you know
who you r...
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everything is going your way.
When the going gets tough,
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the right thing for you,
even when it feels like the
hard...
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granted. Be proactive about
maintaining and sustaining it<...
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being self-ist and being selfish—
putting yourself fir...
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take responsibility for your
happiness is you.
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takes courage. You need to own
your decisions and have the
...
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commitment you will ever make
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can...
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achieved without effort and a
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and you will have all the
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JEAN DUBUFFET Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you ha...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
JEAN COCTEAU If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomf...
JEAN COCTEAU The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent repro...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so...
JEAN GENET Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, an...
JEAN ANOUILH There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former...
JEAN GENET At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager face...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Nothing is irreparable in politics.
JEAN ANOUILH If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corn...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau...
JEAN ANOUILH