Morning Quickie Quotes

#1. Our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.

Donald O. Clifton

#2. A genuine smile touches something fundamental in us: our natural appreciation of kindness.

Dalai Lama

#3. Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Be daring.
Be determined.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. You do have a choice, you know," Etta told her after a moment. "There is always a choice.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

Stanley Clarke

#7. One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.

Thomas Merton

#8. Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

S. N. Goenka

#9. Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

William Ellery Channing

#10. Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything.

Albert Camus