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• The happiness of being envied is glamour.
  Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

  John Berger

  Envy, Illusion, Glamour

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• I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

  Rory Bremner

  Scary, Figures, Frightening

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• Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Worst Case Scenario, Anxiety, Would Be

  "Happiness is a glass half empty" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

  Michel Faber

  Mad, Deep Inside, Knows

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• I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

  Tom Brokaw

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
  People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
  Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Hands

  "Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

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• I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.

  Colin Firth

  Harley, Gentle, Right Now

  "Risque, hilarious and daring quotes from the Golden Globes". www.today.com. January 17, 2011.

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• I think that everything looks a little scarier at night, when the sun goes down. And I know I kind of want a sense of reassurance or a community. Late-night shows is a rare place because that's what we do. Increasingly, I felt like I didn't want to be that guy. I didn't want to do that. It wasn't the only reason that I stopped doing it, but it was a consideration - I didn't know how to process tragedy after tragedy and then ... it just got too much, I think.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Before I went to Escuela Caribe, my parents showed me the school's brochures featuring smiling kids at the beach or on horseback. The propaganda was greatly appealing to a kid from rural Indiana who hated her high school anyway. I also got reassurances that I could return if I didn't like it. But shortly after the gates closed behind me, I learned I'd been deceived; the beach was far away and I couldn't return home until I'd completed the program.

  Julia Scheeres

  Beach, School, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

  Rahul Dravid

  Sports, Careers, Support

  "'I Leave With Sadness But Also With Pride': Dravid". Statement at his retirement press-conference, www.outlookindia.com. March 09, 2012.

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• I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Father, Book, Reading

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

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  Sherry Argov

  Men, Looks, Granted

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

  Meg Rosoff

  Soldier, Black, Letters

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• I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

  Chandra Wilson

  Jobs, Children, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.

  A. Edward Newton

  Book, Reading, Soul

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• There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security.

  Robert Byrd

  Loss, Erosion, People

  "Life in the Shadows of the Empire" by Eamon Martin, www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2006.

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• Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Loss, People, Identity

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

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• The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Men, Long, Excellence

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• in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Eye, Hands

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• Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Spirit, Impossible, Missions

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

  Max Lerner

  Ignorance, Men, Civilization

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief that they can attain the goals valued by self and community. They need reassurance that these goals are attainable.

  Jerome Kagan

  Children, Responsibility, Self

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• I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Time, People

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• I like to call amethyst the mother/healer/teacher/lover of the mineral kingdom because it is for lack of a better term an all purpose crystal. Feeling low? It'll help. Feeling lost? It will help. Need your mom? It will help. Need reassurance that you're making a positive choice in your life? It'll help.

  David

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

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• As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?

  Russell Sherman

  Heart, Reality, Artist

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