Previously Quoted Quotes

"Mythologically, the witch moves in when you start to grow. She moves in to block you as much as possible and either you gain enough energy to overcome her or you quit. She doesn't care which because she is a guardian of the real spiritual areas and she doesn't want wimps in there.”
Robert Bly

"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Nadine Gordimer

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
Carl Sagan

"There is no courage without uncertainty, risk, or emotional exposure. If we don’t do vulnerability, vulnerability does us."
Brene Brown

"It is out of the dailiness of life that one is driven into the deepest recesses of the self."
Stanley Kunitz

"You see things; and say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw

"Do something local. Do something real, however small."
Grace Lee Boggs

"The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years--but the dead move in with us to stay."
Garrison Keillor

"I'm drawing a great deal and think it's getting better.”
Vincent van Gogh

"Ever Tried. Ever failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett

“It’s easier to cause pain than to feel pain. Stop working your shit out on other people!”
Brene Brown

"What is sulking? Sulking is an interesting phenomenon. We don't just sulk with anyone. We sulk with people who we feel should understand us, yet for some reason have decided not to."
Alain de Botton

"I will spend my Heaven doing good on Earth."
St. Therese

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."
George Adair

"Even in the muddiest puddle the entire full moon is reflected."
Dogen Zenji

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.”

George Bernard Shaw

"Too much of the animal distorts the civilized person, but too much civilization makes sick animals."
C.G. Jung

"What we see and what we've seen are but a dream: a dream within a dream."
Peter Weir

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
Walt Whitman

"Growth is moving from one set of problems to a better set of problems."
Terry Garske

"Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified."
Susanna Kaysen, ("Girl, Interrupted")

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
Flannery O'Connor

"We become our adaptations."
James Hollis

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
Flannery O'Connor

"Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a void."
Jerry Seinfeld

"What we are looking for is what is looking."
Francis of Assisi

"I must be willing to give what I am to become what I will be."
Albert Einstein

"Every blessing ignored becomes a curse."
Paulo Coelho

“What we speak becomes the house we live in.”
Hafiz

"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."
Socrates

"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."
Flannery O'Connor

"Consciousness is the mediator between chaos and order."
Jordan B. Peterson

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
Ayn Rand

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"לאט לאט"
Hebrew Saying

"Darkness makes me fumble for a key to a door that's wide open."
Sting

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
Diogenes Laertius

“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”
Albert Camus

"People don't have ideas, ideas have people."
C.G. Jung

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
Diogenes Laertius

"(W)hich is better--cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes from Underground)

"If the path you're on is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
C.G. Jung

"This wandering in the darkness is a wrestling with angels, a struggle the healthy ego hopes to lose."
Bill Plotkin

"Love people and use things, because the opposite never works."
Joshua Fields Millburn

"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life."
C.G. Jung

"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say."
Flannery O'Connor

"I am larger, better than I thought
I did not know I held so much goodness."
Walt Whitman

“It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn’t easy to paint oneself either.”
Vincent van Gogh

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Mark Twain

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
Albert Camus

"But I try to find good questions and not good answers."
Paulo Coelho

"You're running and you're running and you're running away. You're running and you're running but you can't run away from yourself."
Bob Marley

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world, as in being able to remake ourselves."
Gandhi

"If you change the way you're looking at something, the thing you're looking at will change."
Steve Vai

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
Albert Einstein

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anaïs Nin

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis

"Living safely is dangerous."
Irvin Yalom

"Things fall apart, it's scientific.”
David Byrne

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
Albert Camus

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde

“Mystery is not about traveling to new places but about looking with new eyes."
Marcel Proust

"One is always in the dark about one’s own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself."
Carl Jung

"I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
Philip Stanhope

“Disorder is in the eye of the beholder."
Anonymous

"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.”
Sigmund Freud

"All things are full of gods."
Aristotle

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
Dr. Seuss

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
Virginia Woolf

"To care for people is more important than to care for ideas."
Harry Guntrip

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”
Dr. Seuss

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
William James

"Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning."
Kat Domingo

“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”
Dr. Seuss

"There are no absolute truths, and the same goes for lies. We live between these two mythical places,
not knowing which way to face when we pray."
Anonymous

"Where death is, I am not; where I am, death is not."
Lucretius

"I am astonished, disappointed, and pleased with myself. I am depressed and rapturous. I am all this at once and cannot add up the sum."
C.G. Jung

"If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic."
Irvin Yalom

"The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms."
Franz Kafka

"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility."
Leo Tolstoy

"A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: 'As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.'"
Joseph Campbell

"In America, they really do mythologize people when they die."
Robin Williams

"Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell."
Stephen Levine

"We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."
Tao te Ching

“You may say to yourself: 'Well, how did I get here?'”
David Byrne

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry."
John Cage

"...what I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you."
James Hollis

"Just as the air contains water, and the water air, we contain each other. The separation between us is an illusion."
Zymo Zyx

"What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
Eleanor Powell

“Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.”
Chögyam Trungpa

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
Carl Rogers

"Let go, or be dragged."
Zen proverb

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all of the horrors of the half-lived life."
Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

"Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand."
C.G. Jung

"Good pitching will always stop good hitting, and vice versa."
Casey Stengel

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde

"Fundamentally, the marksman aims at himself."
Eugen Herrigel (Zen in the Art of Archery)

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, or actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
Herman Melville

"Among the great things which are to be found among us, the Being of Nothingness is the greatest.
Leonardo da Vinci

"The best way out is always through."
Robert Frost"

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
C.G. Jung

"I like reality. It tastes of bread."
Jean Anouilh

"Are you running from yourself, or are you becoming yourself?"
Ford Mustang GT TV Spot

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

“The thought of a tiger is not a tiger.”
Zen Proverb

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
C.G. Jung

"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."
Maya Angelou (her final tweet)

"It takes two to tell the truth: One to say it and another to hear it."
Henry David Thoreau

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going."
Tennessee Williams

“Anything more than the truth would be too much."
Robert Frost

"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such and unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself."
Hermann Hesse

"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"This is this."
Michael ("The Deerhunter")

PREVIOUS QUOTES OF THE DAY

"I have had to eat many of my own words, and I found the diet very nourishing."
Winston Churchill

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those."
Mark Twain

"It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day. But if you do, you'll find that at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life just waiting for you."
David Goggins

"Psychological symptoms serve the sense of self and not the self!"
James Hollis

"The most sophisticated people I know; inside they are all children."
Jim Henson

"Don't be thinkin' 'bout what's not enough, now baby
Just be thinkin' 'bout what we got."
Eddy Money

"We aren't who we think we are."
Dick Schwartz

"The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others; this is the root of almost all conflicts."
Carl Jung

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
Joseph Campbell

"If you want it to be true, it probably isn't."
Pete Hammill

"Habit is habit, and not to be thrown down the stairs, but coaxed down one step at a time."
Mark Twain

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
John Muir

“It is better to know how to learn than to know.”
Dr. Seuss

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
Albert Camus

"If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don't make excuses about what is said of you, but answer: 'He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.'"
Epictetus (The Enchiridion, 135 AD)

"Sometimes I go about pitying myself,
And all the time
I am being carried on great winds across the sky."
Chippewa woman

“It’s like going on an ocean cruise and refusing to enter into friendships or interesting activities in order to avoid the pain of the inevitable end of the cruise.”
Irvin D. Yalom (Staring at the Sun)

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Flannery O'Connor

"The path up and down are one and the same."
Heraclitis (c. 535 – 475 BC)

"Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see a man in the clouds and have him speak to thee?"
Mervin Peake (Titus Groan)

"If you love what's in your way it will transform."
Dick Schwartz

"I wanted only to try to live in accord with my true Self. Why was that so very difficult?"
Hermann Hesse

"In the darkness of everything external to me, I find...an internal psychic life that is my own."
C.G. Jung

"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war."
Sun Tzu

"The moments that define you have already happened, and they will already happen again."
Peter Dinklage

"We become our adaptations."
James Hollis

"No man can step in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man."
Heraclitus (c. 535 - 475 BC)

"Repetition is the mother of skill."
Tony Robbins

"Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
Rilke

"I’ve just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting."
Vincent van Gogh

"In sterquilinus invenitur."
C.G. Jung

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
William G.T. Shedd

"It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive when people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
Oscar Wilde

"Life is a brilliant spark between two vast and identical pools of darkness: the darkness existing before birth and the darkness following death."
Vladimir Nabokov

"Every angel is dangerous."
Rilke

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
Mark Twain

"And you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears"
Bob Dylan ("The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll")

"That which has to be faced, and is somehow profoundly familiar to the unconscious—though unknown, surprising, and even frightening to the conscious personality—makes itself known; and what formerly was meaningful may become strangely emptied of value.... This first stage of the mythological 'journey'—which we have designated the 'call to adventure'—signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to the zone unknown."
Joseph Campbell

"It's impossible to respect yourself until you grow teeth."
Jordan Peterson

"I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but still I don’t invent the whole of the painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made—but to be untangled—in the real world."
Vincent van Gogh

"What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."
Eckhart Tolle

"Every day is Judgment Day."
Jordan B. Peterson

"The protections of the past are the prisons of the present."
James Hollis

"In sterquilinus inventur."
Alchemical saying repeated by C.G. Jung

"The things you are passionate about are not random. They are your calling."
Fabienne Fredrickson

"If you are resentful, you're either immature or you need to say something. If you're immature, grow up; if you need to say something, say it."
Unknown

"Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense."
W.H. Auden

"Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another; it is the only way."
Albert Einstein

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
C.G. Jung

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

"Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? If not, you will never really change."
D.H. Lawrence

"Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in its head."
As You Like It

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Creativity and fear are conjoined twins."
Elizabeth Gilbert

"What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
Albert Camus

“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
Albert Camus

"We have to face quite a lot. We have to give up a lot. You may not want to, but you still have to, if you want to be kind to yourself."
Chogyam Trungpa’

"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."
Gertrude Stein

"Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde

"Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death."
Otto Rank

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"The truth is like poetry, and most people fucking hate poetry."
Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar by Michael Lewis, author of "The Big Short"

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Henry David Thoreau

"...when something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well."
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed you've got to stand like this. The worst think you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better.
Charlie Brown

"We're never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."
Sigmund Freud

"It's not
yesterday
anymore.
David Byrne

"If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation."
Tony Robbins

"One must spoil as many canvases as one succeeds with."
Vincent van Gogh

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
Joseph Campbell"

Everything you want in the world is just right outside your comfort zone."
Robert Allen

“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”
C.G. Jung

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi

"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
Hugh Laurie

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
Albert Einstein

"We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all."
Douglas Adams

"True power is internal."
Anonymous

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
Albert Camus

“This is one moment,
But know that another
Shall pierce you with a sudden, painful joy."
T.S. Eliot

"All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say no, and said yes."
Moss Hart

“The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
Samuel Johnson

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance."
Vincent Van Gogh

“You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”
Alain de Botton

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Sigmund Freud

"Love tells me I am everything.
Wisdom tells I am nothing.
Between these two, my life flows."
Nisargadatta

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
Oscar Wilde

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
William Blake

“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”
Alain de Botton

"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it."
Kurt Lewin

"The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon."
Franz Kafka

"A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres."
Henry David Thoreau

"You can outdistance that which is running after you, but you cannot outdistance that which is running inside you."
African proverb

“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
Stephen R. Covey

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable."
David Augsburger

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
Coco Chanel

"We dance around in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
Robert Frost

"Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.”
albert camus

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in which direction we are moving."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
Karl Menninger

"You say my poems are poetry?
They are not.
Yet if you understand they are not--
Then you see the poetry of them."
Ryokan

"We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.”
James Hollis

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
Søren Kierkegaard

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman—a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: What is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING."
Freidrich Nietzsche

"A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job."
Josef Göbbels

"The past is just a story we tell ourselves."
Samantha (from the movie "her")

"There is another world and it is in this one.”
Paul Éluard

"May I show all the love I have
In any way I can
To everyone and everything
Here, now, and all the time
Since love is what we are
And why"
The Dalai Lama