Pacific Institute Quotes & Sayings

If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream. — Jean Piaget

He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours? — Jeaniene Frost

Lady Denville replied with dignity that she had never felt the smallest preference for either of her twin sons.

'Of course not! How should you, when you can't tell us apart?' said Mr Fancot — Georgette Heyer

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. — William James

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together. — Henry Winkler

He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself at this moment of Homer's departure. — John Irving

Give her to me."
Turning away with his prize, Lock shook his head. "No. Get your own cat."
"She's my sister. — Shelly Laurenston

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. — Wallace Shawn

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness. — Paul Burch

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light. — Eckhart Tolle

Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death. — Joan Rivers

Why go on? I mean, why record all this? Wouldn't it be better to surrender it to oblivion for all time? For those who were there certainly don't have to read it. And the others, and those who will come later? What if they read it only to enjoy something strange and uncanny and to make themselves feel more alive? Does it take an apocalypse to do that? Or a descent into the underworld? — Hans Erich Nossack

By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life. — Parker J. Palmer

All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

-Bessie — Amy Hill Hearth

I just tripped over a pair of shoes and almost fell down and broke my neck and no I wasn't wearing them. — Stanley Victor Paskavich