"Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea."

-- Horace

#Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.”
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”

Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.”
“Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.”
“People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.”
“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!”
“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
“Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, â€œenrichedâ€ by all this.”

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