The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
Fill the moment and find variety.
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.
The thing about humour is that the super-ego is also at play, so what interested me, particularly in the last chapter which is key to the book -and no one seems to have picked this up in writings on Freud - is that, in the later Freud, the essence of humour is the ability to look at myself and find myself ridiculous. That makes me laugh.
I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.
In thirty years I have treated many patients. Among all my patients in the second half of life, every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given their followers, and none of them was really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.