"Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma."

-- Norman Doidge

#People Quotes #Brain Quotes #Saws Quotes

“Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.”
“September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace. So I give her this month and the next Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already So many of its days intolerable or perplexed But so many more so happy. Who has left a scent on my life, and left my walls Dancing over and over with her shadow Whose hair is twined in all my waterfalls And all of London littered with remembered kisses.”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Autumn Journal”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“I always saw myself as a multi media artist.”
“The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.”
“Humility is something I've always prided myself on.”
“Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.”
“Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.”
“I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.”

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