"It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour."

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Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.267, Transaction Publishers

Theodor Reik

“History's a resource.”
“You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.”
“Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.”
“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, â€œI am suffering,â€ than to say, â€œThis landscape is ugly.”
“I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.”
“It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.”

Source : "'Arrow' Interview: Celina Jade Opens Up About Shado". Interview with Ryan Rigley, www.mtv.com. April 3, 2013.
“Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.”
“You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.”

Source : In C. R. D. Pulling They Were Singing (1952) ch. 7

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