"Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality."

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Source : "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.

John Twelve Hawks

#Sadness Quotes #Reality Quotes #Self Quotes

“Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.”

Source : "Afternoon Treat". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. April 26, 2002.
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers ...”
“Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art....It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.”
“Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth.”
“It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.”
“I’m I really working on the right thing, or once I put the solution in place I’m I going to get the benefit out of it, or is this masking some other underlying thing, whether it’s personal or what have you. I mean, I always get to that too because that’s the subtlety of problem selection.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.”
“We live and die; Christ died and lived!”

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