"To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols."

-- James Bugental

#Blessed Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes

“Better to mock the game than to play and lose.”
“People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!”
“They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.293, U of Nebraska Press
“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”
“It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Source : "Do Our Rights Come From The Constitution?". www.fff.org. June 1, 1999.
“With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone thatâ€™s unlike anyone elseâ€™s, creating an atmosphere you donâ€™t so much interpret as breathe.”
“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”

Source : Bette Greene (1988). “Morning is a long time coming”, Starfire

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