"We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck"

-- Philippa Perry

#Looks Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.”
“Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.17, Highlights Press
“We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.”
“I'm kind of effectively bipolar.”
“Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.”
“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”
“One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.”

Source : "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William Chapin Seitz, p. 136 : in Artists Club, January 8, 1952, 1983.
“Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.”

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