"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Essence Quotes #Transcendentalism Quotes #Divorced Quotes

“Family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love.”
“In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.”
“There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.”

Source : Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing
“It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”

Source : William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
“I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.”
“Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.”

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