That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to the notice of every visitor. Rolandsen made no secret of the fact that he had all these medicaments there solely to disguise the aroma of all the brandy he consumed. But this was part of an act designed purely to give himself an air of inscrutability. Knut Hamsun
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
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Dale Carnegie
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
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Paulo Coelho
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
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Roy T. Bennett
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
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Roy T. Bennett
You Are the Master of Your AttitudeYou cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By Knut Hamsun
It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.
The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word.. that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.. One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give...
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness .. a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic...
