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All I really, really want to do is find a very, very fine chocolate store that I can walk into and then figure out how in the world one manages to pick out just a few chocolates out of all those very many chocolates! If I am one day able to walk into a fine chocolate store and know for certain which chocolates I want, when that happens, I will believe myself to be accomplished! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#chocolates #humor #humour #life #life-and-living

Times do keep changing - thank God. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#god #keep #thank #thank god #times

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. ↗

— Sidney Madwed

#life #success #value #life

todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#life

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesnt carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. ↗

— Sharon A. Russell

#life

An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#inspirational #success #education

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#emotion #meaning #memory #neuropsychology #life

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#life

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also... but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap. ↗

— Toba Beta

#emotional #evil #life #patient #resistance

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#brooks #life #survival #life