"You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Janice Erlbaum

#Healing Quotes #Past Quotes #Events Quotes

“But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.”
“I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.”

Source : "Hedi Slimane: 'Maybe I have to start designing again'" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.
“I was a freshman in college in 1980, the year that Reagan was elected, and I went around badgering people to vote for him.”
“Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education.”
“Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
“A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous”
“I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“Marshall took nonviolence a step further - beyond Gandhi.”

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