"To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Struggle Quotes #Flower Quotes #Book Quotes

“When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.”
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
“I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.”
“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”
“I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.”
“Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.”
“I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness.”

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