Pycelle And Daisy Quotes & Sayings

At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment. — Lord Chesterfield

No," Ray says. "He's getting paid in magic beans. Of course he's getting real money! — Wendy Mass

Client-therapist disagreement about the goals and tasks of therapy may impair the therapeutic alliance. This issue is not restricted to group therapy. Client-therapist discrepancies on therapeutic factors also occur in individual psychotherapy. A large study of psychoanalytically oriented therapy found that clients attributed their successful therapy to relationship factors, whereas their therapists gave precedence to technical skills and techniques.84 In general, analytic therapists value the coming to consciousness of unconscious factors and the subsequent linkage between childhood experiences and present symptoms far more than do their clients, who deny the importance or even the existence of these elements in therapy; instead they emphasize the personal elements of the relationship and the encounter with a new, accepting type of authority figure. — Irvin D. Yalom

To have faith is to refuse to doubt. The phrase "not doubt" is not intended to describe an especially strong faith, a faith strong enough to see miracles, as opposed to a weak faith that is haunted by doubt and cannot see miracles. Rather, eschewing doubt is the very definition of faith; a faith willing to ask for miracles, however tentatively, is the faith that will one day see miracles. — David Crump

She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!"
Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame,
enormous will? — Sarah MacLean

There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's the only place where you even are a writer. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

After dessert we sipped on strong cups of tea, one of the luxuries we can afford to take for granted here in the trade routes.
"Delightful," she said. "If only for a little cream."
"Don't speak to me of cream, Captain. I dream about milk at least twice a week. I run naked with milk running in rivulets from the corners of my mouth. I even miss humble parsley
zounds, how I've taken that weed for granted! And butter, I'll not describe my butter dreams, they're too depraved."
Mabbot chuckled. "We must leave something for dreams. — Eli Brown

Our stories are phantoms of fleeting moments reflected in mirrors. — Dennis Vickers

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free. — Kurt Vonnegut

Yeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself. — Jude Deveraux

And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes. — Lauren Oliver

These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts. — Louis Pasteur

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops. — Sanaa Lathan