"I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give."

-- Hugh Laurie

#Kindness Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes

“My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.”
“I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
“Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.”
“Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
“Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.”
“All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.”
“The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.”
“How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.”

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