"Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive."

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Marina Warner

#Mother Quotes #Men Quotes #Maps Quotes

“In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.”
“I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.”
“No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.”
“To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.”

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books
“I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.”
“It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in philosophical writing. There are probably a number of reasons, but I think that a predilection for a certain kind of individualism is a major one. Others might include the fashionability of consequentialism, the idea that loyalty has more to do with sentiment than reason, as well as its proneness to corruption. The revival of interest in virtue/character as distinct from rules/principles has also created space for a renewed, if hesitant, interest in loyalty.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.”
“Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases”

Source : Kurt Lewin (2013). “Principles of Topological Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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