Riffenburgh Website Quotes & Sayings

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame. — Gregory Maguire

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting. — Harry Stack Sullivan

Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that others think and act generously, kindly and helpfully, in accordance with the laws of life. This natural attitude, fundamental to healthy children as well as primitive man, inevitably represents a great danger in the struggle for a rational way of life as long as the emotional plague subsists, because the plague-ridden impute their own manner of thinking and acting to their fellow men. A kindly man believes that all men are kindly, while one infected with the plague believes that all men lie and cheat and are hungry for power. In such a situation, the living are at an obvious disadvantage. When they give to the plague-ridden they are sucked dry, then ridiculed or betrayed. — Wilhelm Reich

Movement is joy. — Marty Rubin

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future. — Robin Sharma

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act. — William Winwood Reade

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine. — Ryan Sean O'Reilly

How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard. — Caroline B. Cooney