"Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality."

-- Thomas More

#Emotional Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Symptoms Quotes

“The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.”
“Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.”
“Your sister is the only creature on earth who shares your heritage, history, environment, DNA, bone structure, and contempt for stupid Aunt Gertie.”

Source : Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.26, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.”

Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.99, Bantam
“Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?”
“If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.”
“The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.”
“We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.”

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