Respectability And Tone Quotes & Sayings

Today I do a mental housecleaning, making room for new, positive thoughts. — Louise Hay

A few years ago a practising Harley Street psychiatrist, who was dabbling in Buddhism, came to see me. I opened the conversation by saying 'At some time in his life, every intelligent man questions himself about the purpose of his existence.' Immediately, and with the most manifest disapproval, the psychiatrist replied 'Anybody who thinks such thoughts is mentally diseased.' Thus with a single gesture, he swept half-a-dozen major philosophers (some of whom have held chairs in universities - which guarantees their respectability if not their philosophy) into the lunatic asylum - the criminal lunatic asylum, to judge from his tone. I have never seen a man in such a funk. — Nanavira Thera

The lessons which I remember the longest are always the ones that are self-taught — Stephen King

I'm more of a culture hummingbird. — Jai Rodriguez

How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch

This
final and long
longed-for job:
to be unhappy
without doing
evil. — Franz Wright

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities. — Guy Finley

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. — Thomas Brooks