Duijndam Oferty Quotes & Sayings

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week. — Lucille Kallen

The pathologized images have moved the soul in several ways: we are afraid; we feel vulnerable and in danger; our very physical sustance and sanity appear to be menaced; we want to prevent or rectify. Especially this last seizes us. We feel protective, impelled to correct, straighten, repair. For we have confused something sick with something wrong. [ ... ]
affliction reaches us partly through the guilt it brings. Guilt belongs to the experiences of deviation, the the sense of being off, failing, 'missing the mark'. [ ... ]
However the true missing of the mark is taking the guilt literally, where failings becomes faults to be set right. This places the guilt on the shoulders of the ego who 'should not' have failed. Then pathologizing reinforces the ego's style and guilt serves a secondary gain, increasing the ego's sense of importance: ego becomes superego, drivenly busy with repairing wrongs. A guilty ego is no less egocentric than a proud one. — James Hillman

Without hardships, how could we find hope? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' — Andre Breton

Got to lose control before you take control. — Patti Smith

Being God's postman is no fun, yar.
Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture.
God knows whose postman I've been. — Salman Rushdie

It's always our mistakes, the things we aren't proud of, that are the first ones to stand up, ready to be counted. That's human nature and it's not going to change, not for me or for you, either. — Brooke McKinley

It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone. — Jack London