#mental

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe. ↗

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

#freedom

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were fading and blending in with walls. She was shrinking. Or maybe her sphere of influence in the family was shrinking. My dad glanced at her, too, and then wrote something on a napkin. He slid it across the counter to me—Don’t worry. Come home in one piece. Have fun and act like a sixteen-year-old for a change. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #love

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#develop #environmental #i #index #like

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#control #creating #forge #freedom #future

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation. ↗

— Janez Drnovsek

#fundamental #fundamental questions #globalisation #question #questions

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#design #environmental #great #great problems #problems

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#attention #being #business #conation #describe

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#cannot #cognitive #contain #element #mental

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere. ↗

— Paul Allen

#am #answers #basic #civilisations #efforts

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

#attractions #away #been #everything #fundamental