"The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness." Alain de Botton
Browsing category: Life
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on children than the unlived life of the parents."Carl Jung - Psychoanalyst
"Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form." Jean Luc Godard, Film Director
"To regret fully and wholeheartedly is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life. Fully experienced, regret turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibility lived better than the past." David Whyte, Poet and Philosopher
"There are only four types of people in the world:those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who need caregiving." Rosalynn Carter, Former First Lady of the United States of America
"You are encircled by the arms
of the mystery of God."
Hildegarde of Bingen
"I like living. I have sometimes been widely, despairingly, acutely miserable, raked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie
"Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues." Krista Tippett
“We are our choices.” Jean-Paul Sartre