"A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters."

-- Tracy Thompson

#Depression Quotes #Dream Quotes #Hurt Quotes

“The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.”
“Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.”
“Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been feigned to illustrate a point. He wasn't worried in the slightest. "Just relax. Go and run a bath or have a shot of brandy." "Okay." "That second bit was a joke. We both know you can't hold your liquor.”
“I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.”

Source : Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press
“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”
“Right now, I wish Iâ€™d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I donâ€™t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leavingâ€”that you love me, but you donâ€™t need me. You donâ€™t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.”
“You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.”
“Political power without economic power is sterile.”

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