#sf

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#contrast #experienced #feelings #happiness #happy

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#destroyer #get #go #high #into

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#healthy #india #into #nation #prosperous

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#continued #did #different #different things #doing

Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously. I place my boots neatly on the floor of the porch beside the other pairs in the shadows under the coats. Music drifts through to us from a distant room – it’s the Beach Boys’ California Dreamin’. Dawn looks at me and I smile – they’ve put the record on for me. Dawn nods along happily. ‘Hear you’re a surfer boy!’ she says and she mimics riding a wave. ↗

— Amaya Ellman

#dark #dysfunctional-family #fear-and-suspense #fiction #psychological

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#again #belief #century #commune #creating

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city. ↗

— Bob Filner

#board #children #city #diego #elementary

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#after #center #command #completely #control

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#ambassador #another #arrived #back #baghdad

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#cuts #loose #money #people #prison