"Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something."

-- Gary Snyder

#Discovery Quotes #Years Quotes #Brain Quotes

“It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more than an excuse for them.”
“I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.”
“Horror... and moral terror... are your friends.”
“Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.”
“Has our nation preserved, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States?”
“Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.”
“Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.”

Source : CNN interview, quoting in "Taliban-U.S. Talks ‘Very Preliminary,’ Defense Chief Says" by Catherine Larkin, www.bloomberg.com. June 19, 2011.
“The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.”

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