Mahboubeh Ghaemi Quotes & Sayings

You are only Invulnerable when you are in Fear — Suzanne Letourneau

Not to grow up properly is to retain our 'caterpillar' quality from childhood (where it is a virtue) into adulthood (where it becomes a vice). In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our caterpillar nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists and quacks. The genius of the human child, mental caterpillar extraordinary, is for soaking up information and ideas, not for criticizing them. If critical faculties later grow it will be in spite of, not because of, the inclinations of childhood. The blotting paper of the child's brain is the unpromising seedbed, the base upon which later the sceptical attitude, like a struggling mustard plant, may possibly grow. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive scepticism of adult science. — Richard Dawkins

Sometimes, none of us can predict life's outcomes. That doesn't mean we stop living or doing what we know in our hearts is the right thing. — Colleen Charles

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems. — Francis Brett Young

For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction. — Pauline Marois

When people are cruel it's often said that they have no heart, only a cold space or lump of ice in their chest. This was never true of Avalon. She had no heart, everyone knew, but there was nothing cold about her. In her chest burned an enormous coal, white-hot, brighter than the North Star. North knew the truth about Avalon: she was made of fire, and she would burn them all. — Kirsty Logan

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. — Alan Dershowitz

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. — Timothy Dalton

Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate. — Angelique Kidjo

'The Office' is not one of those things you move away from. I don't want it to go away. — John Krasinski

The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing. — Eckhart Tolle