"Comparison is the thief of joy."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Healing Quotes #Feel Good Quotes #Joy Quotes

“My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.”
“Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.”
“Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
“The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.”
“We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.”

Source : Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (2009). “The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives”, p.18, Harper Collins
“When I was about 7 years old, I had been labeled dyslexic. I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. I would get angry. My legs would actually hurt when I was studying. My head ached. All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret. When I'd go to a new school, I wouldn't want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I'd be sent off to remedial reading.”
“It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.”

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Writer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
George Washington
1st U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
William McKinley
25th U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson
28th U.S. President