You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.
What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better.
Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.
It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.
You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.
