"It's very hard to know what wisdom is"

-- James Hillman

“The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They're always around. I'm not sure if that's healthy. But they're all there.”
“Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I love all kinds of music.”
“I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.”
“Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?”
“Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.40, Penguin
“So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.”

Source : Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.241, Simon and Schuster
“When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.”

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