"Inner wholeness: Already and not yet."
David Richo
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment..."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Soul thrives as we jot down a thought in our diary or note a dream, and give body to a slight influx of eternity. Our notebooks then truly become our own private gospels and sutras, our holy books."
Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul)
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
C.S. Lewis
"I have my parents talking to me in my head and then other parts of myself talking back. I think this is potentially an interesting conversation."
Jonathan Franzen
"The developing [child] is more likely to survive in the warmth of wrath and to suffer blight in the chill of indifference."
Richard Galdston
"Thy wild dogs want liberty; they bark for joy in their cellar when thy spirit endeavoureth to open all prison doors."
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
"It is only our opinions and principles that can render us unhappy, and it is only the ignorant person who finds fault with another."
Epictetus (The Enchiridion, 135 AD)
"Truth is the best servant of love."
Jordan Peterson
"I have never been bored unless I was with other people."
Frannie Lebowitz
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
Franz Kafka
"Barn's burnt down. Now I can see the moon."
Masahide
“Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.”
Hugh Laurie
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
C.G. Jung
"What if being unsatisfied is what satisfies you?"
Jordan B. Peterson
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
Albert Camus
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Marilyn Monroe
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
People do not have ideas. Ideas have people. C.G. Jung (needs citation)
"Last time I make plans."
David Byrne
"Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person."
Mother Theresa
David Richo
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment..."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Soul thrives as we jot down a thought in our diary or note a dream, and give body to a slight influx of eternity. Our notebooks then truly become our own private gospels and sutras, our holy books."
Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul)
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
C.S. Lewis
"I have my parents talking to me in my head and then other parts of myself talking back. I think this is potentially an interesting conversation."
Jonathan Franzen
"The developing [child] is more likely to survive in the warmth of wrath and to suffer blight in the chill of indifference."
Richard Galdston
"Thy wild dogs want liberty; they bark for joy in their cellar when thy spirit endeavoureth to open all prison doors."
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra)
"It is only our opinions and principles that can render us unhappy, and it is only the ignorant person who finds fault with another."
Epictetus (The Enchiridion, 135 AD)
"Truth is the best servant of love."
Jordan Peterson
"I have never been bored unless I was with other people."
Frannie Lebowitz
"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
Franz Kafka
"Barn's burnt down. Now I can see the moon."
Masahide
“Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.”
Hugh Laurie
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”
C.G. Jung
"What if being unsatisfied is what satisfies you?"
Jordan B. Peterson
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
Albert Camus
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Marilyn Monroe
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
People do not have ideas. Ideas have people. C.G. Jung (needs citation)
"Last time I make plans."
David Byrne
"Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person."
Mother Theresa
- “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort—and disappointment and perseverance.”—Vincent van Gogh
- “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.”—Vincent van Gogh
- "I haven’t got it yet, but I’m hunting it and fighting for it, I want something serious, something fresh—something with soul in it! Onward, onward."—Vincent van Gogh