"Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths"

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Source : Andrew Harvey (2010). “The Direct Path”, p.249, Random House

Andrew Harvey

#Sea Quotes #Depth Quotes #Calm Quotes

“A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.”
“For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.”
“I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.”
“For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.”
“If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.”
“As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening”
“You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.”

Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “The Ivy Tree”, p.202, Hachette UK
“People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.”

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