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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…
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The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put…
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized…
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How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live.…
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We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.
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Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance…
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We would like otherworldly visitations to come as distinct voices with clear instructions, but they may only give small signs in dreams,…
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By seeing differently, we do differently
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I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of…
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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but…
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Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
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Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
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I have always idolized eccentric people.
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,…
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the…
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
— Anton Chekhov
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the…
— James Hillman
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
— Al McGuire
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…
— John Flavel
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence…
— Rajneesh
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Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
— Oliver Herring
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
— Mark Twain
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If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people.…
— John Eliot
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Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the…
— Clifton Fadiman
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