"Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you."

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

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“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
“my experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.”

Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1995). “A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.”
“One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.”
“From within, from the very most interior center of existence and consciousness, the fact of oneness evermore proves to be the overriding truth.”
“No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.”
“We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity â€¦ by actually talking with them.”
“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”

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