Mazdak Bradberry Quotes & Sayings

It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his emotional capacity.When one is given an anesthetic in preparation for surgery, it is not merely the capacity to experience pain that is suspended; the capacity to experience pleasure goes also - because what is blocked is the capacity to experience *feeling*. The same principle applies to the repression of emotions.
Chapter 1: Discovering the Unknown Self, pg. 9, Bantam Edition, 1984 — Nathaniel Branden

For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry;
And so I hear he doth account me too. — William Shakespeare

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety. — David Lavender

I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them. — Christine Jennings

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't. — J. Michael Straczynski

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime. — Zoltan Kodaly

I had a millisecond to decide what kind of friend I wanted to be. — Katrina Abbott

But that was then, and then is a world away from now. — Sam A. Patel

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe. — Mary Hunter Austin

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence. — Mike Krzyzewski

She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called "his deep, black, velvety smile." Yet, she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert was standing under the palms just across the room talking to a girl who must be Christine Stuart — L.M. Montgomery

You have to be who you are, and hopefully they dig it — Bruno Mars

Don't ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one's going to give it to you. — Jill Shalvis

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he. — Irwin Thomas

Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won't last forever. — Tony Gaskins