Cathect Quotes & Sayings

You know your getting older when you lay in bed til 10am and think to yourself god I just wasted half the day. — Bill Engvall

But maybe it's the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both? — Chang-rae Lee

From somewhere comes the sound of fire: the sound of dried roses being crumbled in a fist. — Anthony Doerr

When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called "cathexis". I his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us "confuse cathecting with loving." We all know how often individuals of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting of neglecting them. Since their feiling is that of cathexis, they insist that what they feel is love.
When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. — Bell Hooks

Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love. — Pope Francis

It was rare for a patient to readjust successfully to normal life after a period spent in a mental hospital. — Paulo Coelho

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. — Ray Harryhausen

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is. — Fred Vargas

The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini. — Frederick Lenz

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. — Peter Jennings

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy. — Desmond Tutu

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth. — Rebecca West

Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else - pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of books ... — Arturo Perez-Reverte

When John-Joseph Heller's fights became too much of a sure thing, story has it he moved on to more risky fights with grown men and even starved dogs. Though he was scarred often, he was never beaten. But as he brought each opponent to his knees, John-Joseph Heller was also growing up and his vision began to extend further than the ring. — S.C. Barrus