"Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment."

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Source : Edwin S. Shneidman (2004). “Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind”, p.160, Oxford University Press

Edwin S. Shneidman

#Perception Quotes #Moments Quotes #Hindsight Quotes

“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.”

Source : Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.”
“In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.”
“When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.”

Source : Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA
“My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.”
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
“I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.”
“Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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