"Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone."

-- Stanley Hoffmann

#Solitude Quotes #Want Quotes #Very Deep Quotes

“If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.”
“Heart disease is a food-borne illness.”
“Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.”
“There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true”
“It's hard to explain. It probably sounds super silly, but I do have a lot of really weird dreams.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free”
“...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.”

Source : Ernest Jones (1990). “Free Associations: Memories of a Psychoanalyst”, p.201, Transaction Publishers

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