Tortorelli Michelle Mirror Quotes & Sayings

I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me. — Ken Keyes Jr.

Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had. — Auliq Ice

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible. — Julian Barnes

John was a mild man, but he was human, and after a long day's work to come home tired, hungry, and hopeful, to find a chaotic house, an empty table, and a cross wife was not exactly conducive to repose of mind or manner. — Louisa May Alcott

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing. — Bruce Cockburn

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really. — Neil Finn

This neuronal correlate of consciousness - the transient assembly - satisfies all the items on the shopping list of phenomena above. The efficacy of an alarm clock is explained as a very vigorous sensory input that triggers a large, synchronous assembly. Dreams and wakefulness differ because dreams result from a small assembly driven by weak internal stimuli, whereas wakefulness results from a larger assembly driven by stronger external stimuli. Anesthetics restrict the size of assemblies, thus inducing unconsciousness. Self-consciousness can arise only in a brain large and interconnected enough to devise extensive neuronal networks. The degree of consciousness in an animal or a human fetus depends on the sizes of their assemblies, too. — Scientific American

We can make each other happy, Farah," Cooper said, lying between my legs and swinging his feet like a kid. His expression was tender as he teased my nipples. "I know you're mine. If you let me start over, we can be so fucking happy that all the shit that came before will be no more than a bad dream."
"I'm afraid to love you too much."
"It's normal to be scared when you grew up in a shitty way. I bet you spent most of your life worrying that anything nice might get stolen away. With me, with what we have, it's probably scary. For me though, losing you is the only thing that scares the shit out of me. I need to make you happy so you'll stay and I can be happy. — Bijou Hunter

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton

Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway. — Irvin D. Yalom

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. — John Cheever

We were seventeen, furious at everything because we didn't know what else to do with the fact that the war was over. — Tea Obreht