quotes

“In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.”

Plato

“Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

—Paulo Coelho

“I do not know who coined the phrase ‘Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better,’ but he or she must have had a great fantasy life. In 65 years on earth, my pattern has never been onward and upward. It has always been up and down and back around.” —Parker Palmer

@schlaf An all time favorite quote of mine “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it feels like an hour. Sit on a bench with a pretty woman for an hour and it feels like a minute. That’s relativity” Einstein

Andy Cloyd x.com

"Man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life. There is... See more

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

—Carl Jung

“As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” —Joseph Campbell

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20

Eric Carle