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[Quote No.54821] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed! [Also of course my estimation of its ignorance could be wrong and without free speech how would I learn any better?]" - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.55502] Need Area: Mind > Imagine
"[Freedom, individualism, and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt another's physical person or property:] Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion.... What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.50851] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"[Individualism:] The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." - Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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[Quote No.55503] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"[Freedom, individualism, and being yourself, so long as it doesn't hurt another's physical person or property:] Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion.... What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself!" - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.4239] Need Area: Work > General
"You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. " - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.4240] Need Area: Work > General
"Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. " - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.50168] Need Area: Work > General
"[Vocation and career:] Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That’s what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. [Don't lose the richness of a full life, where all your needs are catered for and balanced, where only work needs are satisfied.] Don’t ever forget what a friend once wrote to Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator had decided not to run for re-election because he’d been diagnosed with cancer: 'No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office.' ...
[Also] You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
So I suppose the best piece of advice I could give anyone is pretty simple: get a life. A real [rich, full] life, not [just] a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger pay-check, the larger house. Do you think you’d care so very much about those things if you developed an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast while in the shower?
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger... [etc. Get a full life!]
" - Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed columnist. Quote from her book, 'A Short Guide to a Happy Life'.
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[Quote No.11296] Need Area: Property > Home
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating [their home] consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. " - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.49461] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes." - Anna Quindlen
Quote from her book, 'Short Guide to a Happy Life'.
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[Quote No.5498] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. " - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.5508] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The world is full of women [and men] blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood [and fatherhood], still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. " - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.39937] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.40057] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall." - Anna Quindlen
(1952 - ), U.S. journalist, columnist and author. Quote from 'Living Out Loud', p. 138, Random House (1988).
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[Quote No.55500] Need Area: Friends > Children
"This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.71010] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike.
It is a time between: between childhood and maturity,
between parental protection and personal responsibility,
between life stage-managed by grown-ups and life privately held [between dependence and independence within interdependence]." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.54820] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. [Also of course my estimation of its ignorance could be wrong and without free speech how would I learn any better?]" - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.49484] Need Area: Fun > Gratitude
"[Why are we not overflowing with gratitude that each and every experience is not worse?] ...realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted. ... It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the color of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking. ... Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live [in gratitude for them and our lives]. ... Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby’s ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness [which will be gone before you know it], because, if you do, you will live it with [exquisite gratitude] joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
" - Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed columnist. Quoted from her book, 'A Short Guide to a Happy Life'. [http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/11/a-short-guide-to-a-happy-life-anna-quindlen/ ]
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[Quote No.4624] Need Area: Fun > Satisfaction
"If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. " - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.38222] Need Area: Fun > Experiences
"Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long, stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.50166] Need Area: Fun > Experiences
"Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live." - Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed columnist. Quote from her book, 'A Short Guide to a Happy Life'.
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[Quote No.54819] Need Area: Fun > Experiences
"Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live." - Anna Quindlen
'A Short Guide to a Happy Life'.
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[Quote No.24772] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.54879] Need Area: Fun > Books
"In books I have travelled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.55501] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Those of us who read because we love it more than anything ... feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers." - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.9983] Need Area: Fun > General
"Down time is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
" - Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer Prize winning writer
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[Quote No.49080] Need Area: Fun > General
"It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking." - Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed columnist.
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[Quote No.50167] Need Area: Fun > General
"Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness [and life as short], because, if you do, you will live it [- each and every day of it with exquisite, poignant relish -] with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived." - Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed columnist. Quote from her book, 'A Short Guide to a Happy Life'.
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