"The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event."

-- Epicharmus of Kos

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“â€¦there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creatureâ€¦And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”
“I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. Im a lot more introspective than my characters.”

Source : "Longmire's Katee Sackhoff on Finally Playing a Character Who Has Her Shit Together". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 06, 2012.
“I put a lot of pressure on myself to figure out what to say and, lately, I've started trying to work through things in my head. Before, I wouldn't trust my instincts or what I wanted to say and I really struggled with what I wanted to say. I guess it's just the classic case of writer's block and learning how to work through that. I'm slowly learning how.”
“Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.”
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”
“Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.”
“What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.”

Source : Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.292, tredition
“What if one were up there, drifting about among suns and feeling the tails of comets fan one's forehead! How small the earth was and how puny the people; a Norway of two million provincial souls and a mortgage bank to help feed them! What was life worth at such a rate? You elbowed yourself ahead in the sweat of your face for a few mortal years, only to perish all the same, all the same!”

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