#si

But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth. ↗

— Katie Couric

#around #brushing #course #different #different animal

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#character #depression #existence #felt #give

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#facts #optimism #pessimism #prospects #time

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#basic #effects #energy #felt #just

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capable #compassion #former #great #his

The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#death-and-dying #insight #inspiration #death

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#discover #generosity #only #open #others

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#conditions #considered #dolphin #duplicate #however

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#civilization #farmers #farming #herd #hunters

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#be kind #book #considerate #criticism #good