“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.” KnowsTryingEnoughStoriesSeemsOur LivesSceneLateLove StoryFamiliarRiddleEludeElude UsMeaning Nothing Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.” ThinkingOur LivesOrdinaryAspectFamiliar Author:Martin Parr
“...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.” PeopleNeedsMeanSpiritualMovingBeliefChallengesBreakPracticeOur LivesStageDevelopmentLetting GoCrisisPersonal DevelopmentFamiliarCyclesCrossroadsSpiritual PracticeAdoptingStages Of LifeLife Crisis Author:Caroline Myss
“If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.” IfsSoulReasonLightArtistDarkRoomsOur LivesFamiliarPokeDark Room Author:Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
“People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsCoursesOur LivesSeaConnectedFamiliarCompareComparisonOld ManGreat WritersFlattered Author:Yann Martel