"... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."

-- Julia Cameron

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“He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1818). “The Theological Works”, p.78
“I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.”
“The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.”
“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.”
“If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.”
“I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.”
“I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.”
“Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.”

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