"The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill."

-- Leonard Woolf

#People Quotes #Painful Quotes #Dentist Quotes

“people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.”
“Much more than memoir; it's history.”
“I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.”
“I didnâ€™t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked.”
“When you doubt your powers, you power your doubts”
“recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com
“With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.”
“only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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