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Inspirational Quotes by Mark Epstein
- Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds…
- To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and…
- To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.
- The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
- Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
- It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence
- We are what we think, having become what we thought.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento