"When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Writing Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.”
“I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.”
“In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.”
“It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.”
“You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.”
“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”

Source : Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
“But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.”
“I'll never do that again!”

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