"When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift."

-- Michael J. Sullivan

#Air Quotes #Light Quotes #Water Quotes

“We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.”
“Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. At the level of perceptual categorizations, we have reached a land of mental representations quite distant from the layers of the world just inches away from their place inside the skull. This is the reason why each of us experiences a unique way of minding the world. (pp. 166-167)”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.226, Guilford Publications
“Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.”
“By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.”
“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
“I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.”
“Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.”
“The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.”

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