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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#ask #available #bread #daily #daily bread

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

#both #gift #having #i #knew

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years. ↗

— Tim Bray

#days #having #idea #launch #like

True and lasting motivation can’t, unfortunately, come from outside. It must arise from a very deep place within us. This life-changing motivation verily forces its way out of us, demanding that we take action. That is the motivation that propels people to monumental acts of courage, willpower, perseverance, and, ultimately, change. ↗

— Jim Taylor

#change

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#bought #first #i #learn #order

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#art

It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their relationship was like a pendulum gradually grinding to a halt, and he felt out of synch. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #monotony #relationship #change

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#sars #seen #stopped #tracks

Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#choice #convinced #decide #decision #feeling