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It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#among #considered #desert #destitute #find

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#chin #column #fence #getting #given

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#almighty #always #any #continue #emergency

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#back #compromise #confronted #constituencies #distinct

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#block #over #over it #see #stepping-stone

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#helping #literally #others #quickest #succeed

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#calls #come #enjoyment #form #found

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#doing #found #merely #possessing

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#down #feel #floor #high #high seas

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#body #else #escaping #experiencing #freedom