"The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation."

“I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.”

“Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.”

Source : Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1916). “Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education”

“I just needed to leave Hollywood.”

“I do still love you. I don't love you enough to be able to give you the things we dreamed about and planned.”

“Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.”

“Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.”

“Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.”

“No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.”