Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Category: Self-Discovery
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. – Anna Quindlen Category: Self-Discovery
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. – Elizabeth A. Behnke Category: Self-Discovery
“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures Category: Self-Discovery
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. – Philip K. Dick Category: car
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. – Stanislav Grof Category: Death