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Quote by Joni Mitchell
I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more

I dont understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? – Joni Mitchell

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The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is mans disrespect for nature. – Joni Mitchell

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Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated – like I didnt have a community of artists. – Joni Mitchell

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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, its just complaining. – Joni Mitchell

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett

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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. – George A. Smith

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If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. – Taisen Deshimaru

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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind. – Alice Meynell

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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. – Aristotle

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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Arnold Bennett

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There was an edge to this darkness…. A cold wind was blowing out of the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. – George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

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The first time you say something, its heard. The second time, its recognized, and the third time its learned. – John C. Maxwell

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