"It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun."

-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Depression Quotes #Mother Quotes #Horse Quotes

“It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.”
“It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.”
“When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.”
“When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.”
“For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like youâ€™re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But youâ€™re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.”

Source : Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.108, North Atlantic Books
“Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”
“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.”

Source : Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”

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