Meg O'Brien quotes

“If we flaunt our wealth, we make enemies of people who have only their inner strength to get them through. And those are the people I want on my side.”
-- Meg O'Brien

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“The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.”
-- Meg O'Brien

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“time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.”
-- Meg O'Brien

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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.”

“Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.”

“We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”

“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”

“If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.”

“The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.”

“Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.”

Source : Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.158, Simon and Schuster