“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanCountryFactsStoriesFeelingsMemoriesFictionHappenedFindingsDistanceDetailsVersionsBeing TrueConquerParadiseWildernessTransformedSad Story Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.” PeopleKindWarMistakeCasesHappenedMilitaryVersionsFatal Mistakes Author:Stephen Fry
“You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.” ThinkingMindMayFeelingsFacesUsedEnergyLostEasyHurtDecisionHappenedMagicAmountConversationNormalAngryCleanValuableQuittingVersionsWasting TimeNew BeginningsChanging Your LifeWipeStarting OverBeginningKickingSlateFresh StartTime And EnergyDon't Waste Your TimeGiving Up Is Not An OptionNever SurrenderReplayFeeling DownValuable TimeNew Normal Author:Les Brown
“The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.” HappenedSourceAreasEnormousVersionsGrayDiscrepanciesGray AreaDiscrepancies Between Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.” HappenedVersionsOfficialsAgain And AgainVeils Book:The Biggest Secret Source: The Biggest Secret
“Finding the form was really a very dynamic process. I went through a lot of shifting, trying to get it right. Because the writing took place over such a long time, it's hard for me to pinpoint when specific things happened, but basically the final version only materialized in the last two or so years. It was there, but it took me a while to see it and then to refine it after I'd seen it.” WritingTryingYearsLongTwoHardLastsFormProcessHappenedFindingsLong TimeFinalsThings HappenVersionsShifting Author:Danielle Dutton