Quote Of The Day

[Teasel]

Getting over a painful experience is like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C.S. Lewis

 

[The Albatross]

"There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face." ~ Eva Hoffman

 

[TruthSeeker]

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” ~ Lois Lowry, The Giver

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” ~ John Banville, The Sea

“But that's how memory works," Bitterblue said quietly. "Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission." And sometimes they came back incomplete and warped.” ~ Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue

The Giver, great story about breaking free!

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle. Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses, it swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next, one self-centered idea to the next. If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go. Let the senses go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Let the fiction of life and death go. Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there." ~Taylor Budd

 

[The Albatross]

"Some people find fault like there is a reward for it." ~ Zig Ziglar

"The way you see people is the way you treat them." ~ Zig Ziglar

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” ~ Zig Ziglar

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.” ~Anthon St. Maarten

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news.

They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp." ~Anne Lamott


"Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining." ~Anne Lamott

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left." ~Aldous Huxley

 

[Teasel]

Sometimes you just need to talk about something, not to get sympathy or help, but just to kill it's power by allowing the truth of things to hit the air.
Karen Salmansohn

 

[DekuDeku]

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - Neil Gaiman

 

[The Albatross]

“Playing nice" comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when our neuroception misreads the environmental cues and triggers physiological states that support defensive strategies. After all, "playing nice" is not appropriate or adaptive behavior in dangerous or life-threatening situations. In these situations, humans - like other mammals - react with more primitive neurobiological defense systems. To create relationships, humans must subdue these defensive reactions to engage, attach, and form lasting social bonds. Humans have adaptive neurobehavioral systems for both pro-social and defensive behaviors.” ~ Stephen W. Porges, The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I heard a few quotes and perspectives shared from this guy on that library book on cd I've been listening to (Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers On How To Live, by Daniel Klein) and had to look up a few more, as they resonated quite deeply based on personal experiences and current thoughts...

"Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves." ~Adam Phillips

"The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating." ~Adam Phillips

"Believing in religion is like believing adulthood is the solution to childhood." ~Adam Phillips

"Everything depends on what we would rather do than change." ~Adam Phillips