"No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from."

-- Madeline Miller

“When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.”
“It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.”
“It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.”
“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
“Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.”
“...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldnâ€™t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.”

Source : Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (1988). “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955”, p.223, CUP Archive
“When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”
“Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”

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