Intellent Quotes & Sayings

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. — Igor Stravinsky

It has been a long road for us as family therapists to reach an understanding of just this phenomenon-the sense of the whole, the family system. While we could have explained the theory of meeting with the whole family to the Brices, at that anxious moment it would not have touched them. There are situations where, in the words of Franz Alexander, the woice of the intellent is too soft. The family needed to test us. They needed the experience of our being firm. As unpleasant as it was, our response must have reassured them. They knew, and we sensed, how difficult their situation was and how tumultuous it could become. They simply has to know that we could withstand the stress if they dared open it up. — Augustus Y. Napier

All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding. — Arthur Schopenhauer

...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society. — Miles J. Unger

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream. — Laini Taylor

I write here all I can, yet cannot express the fatigue I collapse under each night, worn to the bone with worry. I feel Hope and Fear beside me all the time, two woodsmen with a saw across my middle. They pull the saw in turns. It is everything I can do not to fall in two. — Eli Brown