Thermeau Pool Quotes & Sayings

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing. — Guy Kawasaki

Whatever actions may have been appropriate for your survival when you were a child, are probably no longer necessary. However, the ego cannot know that. It is like a computer program, reacting to life robotically; doing what it deems is most applicable in the present circumstance, according to past experience. The problem is, it often blocks you from feeling what is appropriate in the present moment, through its preconceived notions of what worked best in the past, and may not necessarily pertain any longer. For example you may resist intimacy now by pushing others away, in effect shut them out, because as a five year old you did the same in order to protect your vulnerability. — Paula Horan

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. — Joyce Brothers

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. — George Bernard Shaw

* * *THE FILES OF RECOLLECTION* * *
Oh, yes, I definitely remember him
The sky was murky and deep like quicksand.
There was a young man parceled up in barbed wire,
like a giant crown of thorns. I untangled him and carried him
out. High above the earth, we sank together,
to our knees. It was just another day, 1918. — Markus Zusak

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. — Jan Morris

Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone. — Jeanette Winterson

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory. — Tony Robbins

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer. — Cornelia Funke

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will. — Gelett Burgess