"Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you."

-- Eric Butterworth

#May Quotes #Matter Quotes #Therapy Quotes

“We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.”
“To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.110, Transaction Publishers
“That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.”

Source : Rolling Stone, December 1971.
“At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.”
“Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.”
“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
“I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.”
“In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.”

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