Tttc Quotes & Sayings

Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired object. While the correct valuation of a person is an odd, if not impossible idea, we might say Freud meant something like this: for various reasons, many of them masochistic, we become involved with others who cannot possibly give what we ask for; we can wait as long as we wish, but they do not have it, and one day, if we bear to abandon our fantasy and see clearly, we might face reality straight on. We will then look elsewhere for fulfillment, to a place where our needs can, in fact, be satisfied. — Hanif Kureishi

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible. — Yukio Mishima

Life isn't about merely surviving. It's about living. — D. Nichole King

I would imagine that not having any potential could be less difficult than not fulfilling it. — Dov Davidoff

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal