"We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so."

-- Blaise Pascal

“Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin
“Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.”
“Eating is the secret to good cooking.”
“Iâ€™m really alive when Iâ€™m on stage,”
“All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”
“Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming”

Source : Song: The Things That Stop You Dreaming, Album: All the Little Lights
“The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.”
“Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.”

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