"The key to our transformation is simply this: the better we know ourselves the better equipped we will be to make our choices wisely."

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Source : Gregg Braden (2015). “Resilience from the Heart: The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes”, p.20, Hay House, Inc

Gregg Braden

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“In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.”
“It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.”
“When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going”
“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. Itâ€™s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.”
“When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.”
“Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.”
“My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.”

Source : "The Punk Director: Penelope Spheeris Revisits Her Decline of Western Civilization Trilogy". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. July 15, 2015.
“Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.112, New York Review of Books

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