"My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us."

-- Howard Bloom

“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from May 17, 2014
“Even if you finish the year at No. 1 in the world, and Tiger Woods has done this, you can still probably get better.”
“The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.”
“In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody's music.”
“Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.”
“Conventions, like clichÃ©s, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.”
“Lord, we lift up your name. With hearts full of praise; Be exalted, O Lord my God! Hosanna in the highest!”
“If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?”

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