“Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.” ChildrenLongHappensProcessVirtueOur LivesBuildingBehaviorLong TimeDeterminationThings HappenPrimariesBad ThingsSatisfyingNew ThingsTake TimeThings ChangeRaising ChildrenBad Things HappenLearning NewLearning New Things Author:Gordon Livingston
“Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.” FeelsLongLostLosesToo MuchOur LivesTheoryFindingsLong TimeGratefulStatus QuoWalletsTheory Of Life Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.” WellsKindLongMadeMotherOur LivesTheoryTypeJudgmentPerceptionSummerLong TimeInstrumentsPsychologicalMade ItOur FamilyPreferenceIntroversionJung Author:Isabel Briggs Myers
“We're in essence allowing our spirit to come to terms with all the conflicts that we build within ourselves. Disease is after all a conflict within the tissue itself. Memory fading within the tissue, conflict of our actions or thoughts, our lives are not seamlessly running together in some way for ourselves, and had not been for a long time before we get to the critical point of a disease.” WayLongRunningActionTogetherSpiritTermMemoriesOur LivesConflictDiseaseLong TimeEssenceCriticalAllowingOur ActionsTissuesFadingRunning Together Author:Maya Tiwari
“A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.” WorldLongOur LivesPossibilityChangedLong TimeTurning Points Author:Terence McKenna