Bad humor is an evasion of ...

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
 Malcolm Muggeridge

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.
 Malcolm Muggeridge
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
 Malcolm Muggeridge
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
 Malcolm Muggeridge
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
 Malcolm Muggeridge
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called licking the earth.
 Malcolm Muggeridge