"Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you."

-- Robert Holden

“I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.”
“The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.”
“I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.”
“The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean that he can simply hear the other, but that he will listen actively and purposefully, responding with the instrument of his trade, that is, with the personal vulnerability of his own trembling self. This listening is that which will facilitate the patient's telling of his tale, the telling that can set him free. (5)”
“I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desireâ€”well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.”
“You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf
“If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.”
“By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.”

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