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“We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?”

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James Vila Blake

James Vila Blake, born in 1842 and died in 1925, was a renowned American author known for his diverse literary works. more

“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.”

Ifs Self Purpose Pleasure Emotion Brain Emotional Anger Blow Cruelty Poison Destructive Substitutes Justification Justified Triggers Loathing Self Loathing Tornadoes

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.”

Love Giving Humans Culture Nations Community Love Is Existence Couple Receiving Human Existence Glue Giving And Receiving Receiving Love

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.”

War Body Brain Vulnerable Organs Angle Not Pretty

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.”

Mind Wells Feelings Might Joy Passion Brain Study Our Lives Wind Disease Patterns Dust Destructive Humankind Robots Devastation Barricades

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.”

Knows Feelings Worry Awareness Objects Anxiety Fearful Extensions Dynamics

Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“I'm overwhelmed with my own feelings and the feelings I have for all the people who were rooting for us to win this thing.”

People Feelings Winning My Own Overwhelmed

Author:Garry Maddox

“The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.”

Mean Art Matter Hands Artist Goodness Art Is Perfection Mirrors Revelations Works Of Art Manifest Mechanism Innate Innate Goodness

Book:Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries

Source: Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries

“It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.”

Existence Lifetime Realms Mystical

Author:Stanislav Grof

“Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.”

States Facts Religious Share Economic Special Car Materials Industry Horse Possession Oil Treasure Attachment Rooted Automobile Material Possessions Texan Oil Industry

Author:Jim Atkinson

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