"Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain"

-- O. Carl Simonton

#Pain Quotes #Healing Quotes #Joy Quotes

“There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.260, Broadway Books
“No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.”
“Do what thy manhood bids thee do.”
“Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.”
“Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.”
“French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that”
“There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.”
“For [people] to be like "So what it's like dealing with female characters who are completely disgusting?" I don't think they are - does that make me weird? I made a very intentional choice to not care about that stuff, and go like "I don't care about it, I'm just gonna tell my truth and see what happens."”

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