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“Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.”

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Spencer Johnson is an American author born on January 1, 1940. His works are known for their concise and practical style, especially his book 'Who Moved My Cheese?' which has gained widespread popularity. more

“What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.”

Hands Night Passion Realizing Mets Understood Letters Separation Readiness Gypsy Faithless

Book:Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems

Source: Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems

“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”

Way Said Fall Dark Rooms Shadow Aspect Window Cameras Tiny Painter Association Sunlight Projection Upside Down Jung Dark Room Shadow Work Camera Obscura

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Ifs Want Doe Art Made Creative Clear Stupid Divine Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Block Manage Streams Dry Paradox Thrones Spills Rubies Creative Life Censoring Jackasses Dry Up

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.”

Men Way Doe Real Lasts Grows Real Power

Book:A Wizard of Earthsea

Source: A Wizard of Earthsea

“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”

Moments Gone Notes Reckoning

Book:The World And Other Places

Source: The World And Other Places

“That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.”

Dream Lost Inspiring Lost Dreams

Author:Neil Gaiman

“You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath”

Knows Firsts Names Fiction Breaths Mirrors Solitary Unseen

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.”

World Littles Home Night Lonely Mad Coming Home Survivor Sole Congratulations All Night Personal Success Lonely Places

Author:John le Carre

“Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.”

Heart Long Life Is Girl Mines Broken Laughter Illness Scar Void Cried Corn Radiant Love And Laughter Ada

Book:Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle

Source: Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle

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