"Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do."

-- John Hodgman

#Comforting Quotes #Magic Quotes #Bears Quotes

“The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no meaning. At a deeper level of reality, my life can't help but have meaning, because everything is continually unfolding, and I am connected into that unfolding in ways that I can't even imagine.”

Source : Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.11, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“We were really sick of silver.”
“Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.”
“If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.”
“We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.”
“Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.”
“I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.”
“Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.”

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