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Quotes by Australian Authors
"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."
"You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it's on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I'm Australian, so I'm not too flashy or glitzy."
"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."
"Every possibility already exists. All knowledge, all discoveries, and all inventions of the future, are in the Universal Mind as possibilities, waiting for the human mind to draw them forth.Every creation and invention in history has also been drawn from the Universal Mind, whether the person consciously knew that or not."
"Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories."
"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
"I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label."
"In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend."
"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."
"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."
"I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world."
"Sometimes you don't let us talk about how we're feeling. If we feel scared, you say, 'Nothing to worry about, guys,' but that doesn't make it go away. It makes it grow."
"Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you."
"I want to explore every aspect of you."
"You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round."
"If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence."
"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."
"I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less."
"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore."
"One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives."
"My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one."
"The happiest, most successful people believe in themselves unconditionally. They know they can do, be and have all that they want in life."
"He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine."
"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"
"Nobody from your past should be held responsible for your future. The only person accountable for your future is you."
"What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person - you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself."
"It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers."
"Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff."
"It's never too late to change anything or everything; there is no point that is too low to come back from. There is no opportunity that is lost. And the great news is that it's not the world you need change. Just change the way you think, change the way you feel, and the world as you know it will change before your eyes."
"Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution."
"Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it."
"Don't be attached to outcomes. Enjoy your experiences for what they are, what you have gained and what you have learned."
"Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable."
"Choose your battles wisely. Unless you have a very high chance of victory, spare your energy and walk away."
"We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that."
"We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project."
"Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are."
"I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty."
"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his."
"Some mysteries are meant to stay that way."
"A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example."
"When you understand the difference between want and need, you will finally realise how rich your life really is."
"Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through."
"My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions."
"Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values."
"We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves."
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