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We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete. ”
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. ”
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? ”
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ”
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. ”
For me, it's a pleasure to play football every three or four days. ”
Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job. ”
We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country. ”
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive. ”
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. ”