"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

“The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.”

“The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.”

“The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (1993). “Daily in Christ: a devotional”, Harvest House Pub

“The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.”

“I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.”

“Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.”

“It's all mental management. Whether you can do something or not is in your head.”

“The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.”

Source : John Tillotson (1699). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions : Together with the Rule of Faith : Being All that Were Published by His Grace Himself and Now Collected Into One Volume : to which is Added, an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Matters”, p.338