It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. George Orwell
We're all golden sunflowers inside.
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Allen Ginsberg
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide...
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Lev Grossman
In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.
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Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
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Charles M. Schulz
More Quotes By George Orwell
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
