“Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I could not express my thoughts as they occurred or soon thereafter, but the language in which I thought and the language in which I spoke, though both English, often seemed divided by a gap that could not be simultaneously, or even retrospectively, bridged.” ThinkingShouldReasonLanguageDifficultReason WhyNo ReasonSpokesGapsDividedDrsMy ThoughtsConsecutiveArticulatingAdler Book:Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel Source: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel
“People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.” PeopleThinkingLifeFeelsWellsMaySeemsEasyStuffDifficultSimpleInterestingFashionDefeatMisfortunesHappy LifeOverwhelmedLife And LoveVery InterestingPatchesDifficult ThingsVery DeepGood Experiences Author:Peter Cameron