"When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.""

-- Darren Johnson

#Past Quotes #Focus Quotes #Toxic Quotes

“I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.”
“In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.”
“Trust what moves you most deeply.”

Source : Sam Keen (1977). “Beginnings Without End”, Harpercollins
“I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!”
“I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.”
“To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.”
“The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.182, Vintage
“Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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