Shahar Quotes

#1. It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy.

N.K. Jemisin

#2. I'm Shahar Peer. I came here to play tennis. I know I'm from Israel and I'm proud of my country and that playing tennis is what I'm going to do tomorrow.

Shahar Pe'er

#3. RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide effective market discipline Facing prices that are too low, systemically important firms will take on too much risk."

Gary H. Stern

#4. There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths

Tal Ben-Shahar

#5. One of the most empowering moments of my life came when I realized that life is a question and how we live it is our answer.

Gary Keller

#6. I was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]

Shahar Pe'er

#7. Learn to fail or fail to learn

Tal Ben-Shahar

#8. I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

George Clooney

#9. Incremental change is better than ambitious failure ... Success feeds on itself.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#10. Regret is not the same as guilt. It is expressed by: 'I can't believe I did that. It's not like me. This is not how I am! How could I do such a thing?' It means to see ourselves as the best we can be, and to be disappointed in not living up to that.

Yael Shahar

#11. Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#12. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them.
On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

Douglas Adams

#13. We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#14. Perhaps you think you see a certain contradiction here? In that case, a word in your ear. Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!
you have married a monster.

Wilkie Collins

#15. To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

George Herbert Mead

#16. Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.

Laozi

#17. Creativity is a muscle, and when we flex the muscle of our imagination, we find inspiration.

Inbar Shahar

#18. Our behavior toward others is often a reflection of our treatment of ourselves.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#19. But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#20. Every action in this world, every word, every thought, has an effect. But the actor is also acted upon by his action. The condition on which you are allowed to make a change in the world is that the world changes you as well.

Yael Shahar

#21. Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

Tal Ben-Shahar

#22. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.

James Allen

#23. Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.

Shintaro Ishihara

#24. I think Arminianism is death to Christianity!

R.C. Sproul

#25. I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love was deep and silent - and therefore easily overshadowed.

Polly Shulman

#26. There is a continuity in our lives - a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true that in the face of pain and death, we are very small. But in the face of life and memory and love, even death is very small.

Yael Shahar

#27. When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#28. I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life.

Tal Ben-Shahar

#29. To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself - that, my friend, is very hard to do.

Bruce Lee