"Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the environment in the present, in the context of its past experiences and expectancies of the future. At the level of perceptual categorizations, we have reached a land of mental representations quite distant from the layers of the world just inches away from their place inside the skull. This is the reason why each of us experiences a unique way of minding the world. (pp. 166-167)"

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.226, Guilford Publications

Daniel J. Siegel

#Reality Quotes #Unique Quotes #Past Quotes

“Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.”
“Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise...Blessed are those whose strength is in you...blessed is the one who trusts in you!”
“He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.”

Source : Tessa Dare (2010). “One Dance with a Duke”, p.181, Ballantine Books
“We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.”

Source : Peter Salovey, Marc A. Brackett, John D. Mayer (2004). “Emotional Intelligence: Key Readings on the Mayer and Salovey Model”, p.1961, National Professional Resources Inc./Dude Publishing
“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.”

Source : "The Task of Social Hygiene". Book by Havelock Ellis, ch. 1, 1912.
“I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK”
“The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)â€¦â€¦The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).”
“...the elephant smoked too much.”

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