"The more we talk about the past, the less we heal from it."

-- Marshall B. Rosenberg

#Communication Quotes #Past Quotes #Nonviolent Communication Quotes

“Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.”
“Better a dish of husks to the accompaniment of a muted lute than to be satiated with stewed shark's fin and rich spiced wine of which the cost is frequently mentioned by the provider.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”
“I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!”
“The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library”
“[Anton] Chekhov is the most produced playwright in the world after Shakespeare, and most of the people in my sort of audience would have seen at least one of his plays.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.”
“Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.”
“I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.”

Source : Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.

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