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In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made… — Fred Rogers
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of… — Gilles Deleuze
It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of… — Richard Wright
God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall… — Epictetus
â€Ž"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need… — Jay-Z
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. — Oscar Wilde
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to… — Jonathan Edwards
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… — David Foster Wallace
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection… — Philip Zimbardo
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External… — Alexandre Dumas
Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,… — Paulo Coelho
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. — Gene Wolfe
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power… — Arthur C. Clarke
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your… — Marcus Aurelius
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though… — Alberto Moravia
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of… — Chinua Achebe
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his… — Patrick SÃ¼skind

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