"[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Reality Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.”
“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shapeâ€”determineâ€”what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source : James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press
“No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!”

Source : Hester Lynch Piozzi (1926). “The letters of Mrs. Thrale”
“Imagine what the world could be if we were on the offense with love instead of on the defense with hate.”
“In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.”
“You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work on your client so to speak before your opponent can dig it up. We're vetting everything thoroughly.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, â€œforget it,â€ or â€œit will pass,â€ or â€œit could be worseâ€ - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, â€œIt is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.”
“I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.”

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