Gendlin Focusing Quotes & Sayings

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. — Azar Nafisi

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards. — Michael Monroe

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse. — Ram Dass

To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao. — Zhuangzi

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. — Larry Flynt

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies. — Tim Burton

The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice. — Anna Chlumsky

What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all. — Rohan Perera

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different. — Daniel Alarcon

I'm very flash and burn - the first thing that comes to mind is obviously the best idea, and that's because it should come out of a natural place, and if you don't do that then you're writing someone else's music, not your own. — Zach Condon

Eat less, exercise more. — M.L. Rudolph

56. As to those who disbelieve, I will punish them with a severe torment in this world and in the Hereafter, and they will have no helpers. — Anonymous