“I will work on myself, since the work on myself is going to be the highest thing I can do for it all, since I understand that as man up-levels his own consciousness, he sees more creative solutions to the problems that he’s confronting. ”

—Ram Dass 

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. ”

—Eckhart Tolle

“I called Amy [Poehler] and started crying. She was like, “What will you get paid, again?” I told her. At the time it was certainly the most we’d ever made. She just started laughing. “You’ve got to take the job,” she said. Then the ladies from Second City took me out to dinner at this awesome restaurant in Chicago called Wishbone. I got up from the table because I had to vomit from pure nerves. I’ve never had that before in my life.”

—Tina Fey on her reaction to being hired at SNL

“I'm not a mean person, but I have the capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head - like it's in captivity.”

—Tina Fey

“There is no such thing as a good fit that is uncomfortable. The good fit, which, as I have said, must be allied to cutting, must never have any appearance of strain anywhere, and it should look as relaxed as you feel.”

—Hardy Amies

“Try to acquire the weird practice of savouring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray.”

Daniel Dennet, Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking

“When I see a man in a state of anxiety, I say, What can this man want? If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he still be anxious? ”

—Epictetus

“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.” ”

—Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale
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