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Title: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Kizzie on June 17, 2016, 08:55:24 PM
Follow on to Parts 1 and 2
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Three Roses on June 26, 2016, 04:49:35 AM
"What you are is an expression of history." Robert Penn Warren, World Enough And Time
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on August 06, 2016, 02:17:04 AM
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

--Elbert Hubbard
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on August 08, 2016, 02:16:43 PM
"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it.

It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."

Alan Watts
      ------------------------------------------
Much of what Watts had to say in this and other quotes of his resonates strongly with my experience on this road called cptsd. He has a lot of wisdom nuggets tucked around his writings.

This one I've found helpful whenever I sense an urge to rush to the cure (rush? I've been searching for nearly 50 years of if only thinking!). And sometimes I'm crushed realizing that, well, there may never be a defined 'cure' that I'll even recognize. Then I remember to slow down and truly 'live in the moment'--all of them, even the painful ones. Tricky to say that, though; 'now' and 'in the moment' have become such buzzwords in an age of celebrity psychobabble still promising that elusive cure-all. Anyway, I'm still learning to play this symphony en route, as it is, without regard for that defined endpoint where perfection breaks out and saves me. 
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Three Roses on August 08, 2016, 03:52:02 PM
Love this! Thanks for posting
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Dutch Uncle on August 12, 2016, 03:43:40 PM
Thanks for some great quotes!  :thumbup:

While I'm looking for confirmation of a quote made by Niels Bohr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr) (the Nobel Prize winning physicist who stood at the cradle of quantum mechanics) I came across this gem:

"No, no, you're not thinking — you're just being logical."
— Bohr

(the unverified quote I'm looking for is something like this:
"To understand nuclear physics is child's play compared to understanding child's play.")
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on August 25, 2016, 07:41:00 AM
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
     ---Joseph Campbell

I used to spend a lot of time searching for the way, an all-inclusive path that I could jump on, like an automated walkway, and easily find all the answers. The more I did that the more disappointed I became. Why couldn't I do this better, etc.?

Now I realize the value in knowing that recovery is a work-in-progress, with no set destination--whatever I discover might even contain a pleasant surprise; even if I only come to it through more pain, anxiety and depression. Whatever I'm finding often brings more questions than pat answers. As Campbell pointed out, our individual paths are sometimes anything but clear. And that's fine.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on September 02, 2016, 06:00:23 PM
If we run away from our sadness,
If we turn our backs on anger,
If we deny fear its inherent right to be here,
If we kick our pain out onto the cold, dark streets,
How will we ever know
That these weren't precious gifts made of gold,
Forged in the fires of ourselves long ago?

...Jeff Foster
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Kizzie on September 02, 2016, 08:56:38 PM
"Put down the shovel of self-blame and stop digging"

Sonia Connelly, Sundown Healing - http://traumahealed.com/articles/prefer-narratives-with-hope/
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Dutch Uncle on September 06, 2016, 04:56:02 PM
I'm in a bit of limbo today... up, down.

*** trigger warning: this is a bit dark***

edited it out.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Dutch Uncle on September 08, 2016, 02:53:41 PM
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.

Albert Einstein
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Dutch Uncle on September 13, 2016, 01:52:54 PM
silence cannot be misquoted..... anonymous.

(why No Contact is so important)
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on September 15, 2016, 04:21:45 PM
"...don't add legs to a snake..."---anonymous.

My take: Cptsd abuse is like a poisonous snake and we only make it worse by adding power (obsessing, trying to undo, fighting back, etc) to its venomous abilities to hurt those in its way. We've already suffered and need to be careful we're not adding to the injury instead of dealing with the recovery.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on September 26, 2016, 01:38:24 PM
"I don't want to be perfect. I want to be real."  ...Jeff Foster
     
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: sanmagic7 on September 27, 2016, 07:55:26 PM
 -- wisdom and talent are the lowest tiers of usefulness  --  samurai wisdom

without action, there is still nothing accomplished.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: ~Lapis-Lazuli~ on September 29, 2016, 04:54:50 AM
"Everybody is a genius.  But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on November 10, 2016, 06:23:07 PM
This is more of a commentary. The following certainly isn't a 'favourite' but it reflects what was probably well-intended but rubbed me the wrong way; and to me it comes off as just another way to say "just get over it."

Anyway, the quote is:

"Stop casting yourself as 'the victim' in the story of your life."     

Easy enough to say. Stop seems like such an authoritarian command, though. Maybe it works better along these lines--"Consider casting yourself in a new story..."

Because in one sense or another, denying the victim part usually doesn't hold up.The 'stop' order seems to suggest a wrong conclusion when the reality is an abused person will have internalized it as hurtful, as it was undeniably inflicted on an innocent child. There is no right to that, no positive, without denying reality. It did happen, it felt bad; and leaves scars and shock waves that can tear a person open. A cute phrase can't paper it over.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: radical on November 11, 2016, 06:17:01 AM
Hi Meursault, and everyone,

I feel the same way about those kinds of paternalistic prescriptions.  I'd cringe if I heard someone say that to a child.  To an adult.....well!.  I appreciate things like: 'You control the story you tell about yourself' (I don't think that's a saying, but you get the drift).  I experienced for myself the freedom when I was in one of those awful rounds of 'tell us about yourself' in a workshop a couple of weeks ago.  I suddenly thought "I can say whatever I choose", and did.  i didn't feel I had to follow the sorts of scripts followed by others.  It was liberating to control a narrative about myself, especially following what others were saying would have emphasised what I feel are stigmatised differences from them and left me feeling awful.  Being told off, as with the quote you mention, like a child for expressing vicitimisation, to ourselves or anyone else just makes me angry.  I'd rather be reminded of my freedom - that's what I find liberating.

I had the displeasure of being in the public mental health system today.  I'm very grateful for a treatment they are providing me as an outpatient.  There are some great people working there, but *, the whole place is so invalidating and infantalising.   The walls are littered with cute quotes and advice that I mainly just find annoying or offensive, and would if they were on the walls of a classroom.   The quote I found least offensive was something like "a teabag only learns how strong it is when it is in hot water" I still have no idea what on earth that means.  Is it about how strong the tea turns out after the tea leaves are drained of their flavour by sitting in boiling water?.  Other slogans and posters implied to people suffering severe illnesses and the outcome of devastating trauma, that changing our attitudes and being better behaved would solve everything.  Chin up!

I tried to have a normal adult to adult conversation with the doctor who came to ask me some questions before giving me an injection.  He literally looked at me blankly as if he had no idea how to respond to a fellow human being, and seemed to find the idea of me asking a few questions to be bizarre.  By contrast, this afternoon I went to a dentist appointment.....but there shouldn't be a contrast in being treated and talked to as an adult worthy of ordinary respect.  It's not a budget thing because it costs nothing.

I guess my point is that if I spent too much time there I'd feel small and humiliated, because a good patient in that system is a good little boy or girl, in the old 1950s model of mother and father know best, and I strongly suspect trying to behave as a fellow adult with the staff would be pathologised, by many.

Excuse my rant.  I am grateful to the good people there, and for being able to have an expensive treatment I'd otherwise have to go overseas for.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on November 16, 2016, 04:48:27 PM
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

--Isaac Bashevis Singer

...we're all creators, looking to create our way out of this swamp called cptsd...but even when we begin to formulate a vision of a way out, getting past the chasm Singer mentions can be painful and then some. So we move on, regardless; but so often fearful, heartbroken, and not sure we can build enough strength to make it to that "ultimate expression"...peace with ourselves.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on January 29, 2017, 03:34:24 AM
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
-- Lao Tzu...

...as soon as one sets up too precise expectations the risk is that anything short seems like certain failure and crippling disappointment. Goals are still fine and help set parameters, but they seem more doable when they're flexible enough for real life's complexities and contradictions.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Three Roses on February 15, 2017, 05:41:13 AM
Sometimes you just need to talk about something - not to get sympathy or help, but just to kill its power by allowing the truth of things to hit the air. ~ Karen Salmansohn
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Marie on May 11, 2017, 09:23:17 PM
❤️"You can heal your life"❤️

Louise Hay
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: lambchop on May 12, 2017, 01:14:18 AM
Love this one....

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ William Morrow
:)
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Blueberry on July 05, 2017, 12:42:18 PM
In my calendar, don't know who from: "Strong people don't put others down, they lift them up."

We do a lot of lifting up on this forum, so yet another proof that we survivors are strong people.

(Thinking about this later, I wanted to add that certainly part of the "lifting up" we practise on this forum has to do with the ground rules laid down and adhered to by Kizzie and 3Roses. So a big thank you to both of you! Me, I had to learn how not to put other people or myself down constantly, and I may not be the only one on here.) Still a very apt quote! 
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on July 05, 2017, 01:48:41 PM
Blueberry.... :yeahthat:


I'm reminded of another quote that goes something like: "The smart have their theories and books, but the wise have their scars." One result: empathy for others who've endured this journey.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on July 07, 2017, 09:18:48 PM
"Maybe the most difficult stranger to welcome is the one who lives inside."

       ~ Mirabai Starr ~
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on August 22, 2017, 01:58:33 PM
"Scars mark the places where life and sanity were threatened, ordeals endured, wounds opened and closed. They evoke a queasy awe in the best of us. We stare and look away, want to ask what happened but don't dare broach the subject, as if these patches of mended flesh identified experience beyond the realm of human discourse. Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word 'scar' is one letter away from 'scare.'"

–Kat Duff
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Sceal on September 22, 2017, 10:09:36 PM
" Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway" - Earl Nightingale
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on November 11, 2017, 05:07:37 PM
  Successful improvisation is
mostly a matter of taking your thoughts
out of the equation, because thinking
can keep the magic from happening.
You have to be open enough to
let the magic happen, instead of
trying to make it happen because
magic is never made.

~ Jimmy Herring

----------------------------------

This seems strange, at first, to consider being with life this way. But really, having tried and tried and tried again to figure things out, in the end this is where I feel life has more promise. So many thoughts only haunt me, and dwelling on them one misses the magic of stepping past them.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Sceal on January 24, 2018, 11:03:07 PM
"Here lies a woman who was always tired.
because she lived in a world where too much was required."

- Clementine Churchill in the movie The Darkest Hour
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Sceal on January 24, 2018, 11:12:45 PM
Quote from: woodsgnome on July 07, 2017, 09:18:48 PM
"Maybe the most difficult stranger to welcome is the one who lives inside."

       ~ Mirabai Starr ~

Ooh, I really like this one WG!
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: bogan on January 24, 2018, 11:21:32 PM
Dont bother losing  weight,   just get fatter friends.    fits every part of my life it means to change who you compare youself to
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on June 24, 2018, 04:42:23 PM
"A centerpiece of healthy adulthood is having your child self intact and alive and something to be proud of." ~ Maurice Sendak

Rings true, poignant, but also confusing. The latter is for those of us whose early struggles obliterated any sense of the child self. We were too busy defending; so maybe that's the pride part--that we were able to somehow do that?
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on June 24, 2018, 05:13:40 PM
"Peace is the way we struggle.  Peace is not the absence of the storm.  Peace is not some tranquil, idyllic place.  And peace does not keep the storm at bay.  But peace names that way we struggle with that which lies before us" ~ Jarem Sawatsky, author of Dancing with the Elephant.

I've always felt that my goal is peace. I've pictured it as something in the distant future, a someday phenomenon for when I can make it past all the cptsd roadblocks to serenity. But maybe peace is more a process than a destination, as suggested by this quote. In one sense, I'm living in peace; but life interferes, and life includes cptsd, etc. So peace is still my goal, but with a slightly different spin to what that really means.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Elphanigh on August 01, 2018, 05:57:53 PM
This is the full version of my signature.

Happiness turned to me and said - "It is time. It is time you forgive yourself for all of the things you did not become. It is time to exonerate yourself for all the people you couldn't save, and all the fragile hearts you fumbled with in the dark of your confusion. It is time to accept you don't have to be who you were a year ago. You don't have to want the same things. Above all else, it is time to believe, with reckless abandon, that you're worthy of me, for I have been waiting for years.

-bianco sparacino
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Boy22 on September 19, 2018, 10:58:17 PM
One of mine, from on the wall of my science class age 13.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on March 12, 2019, 06:03:34 PM
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt.

He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.'

The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?'

The grandfather answered: 'The one I feed.'

                        ~      :bigwink:    :yes:    ~

While this story speaks for itself, the words "loving, compassionate" surprisingly rattled me. It's so hard to cultivate compassion for those who hurt me so badly. If I turn this to self-compassion it feels better, but when I regard the "loving compassionate" side as a whole, with even the hurt parts included, I can see it as an umbrella-like term under which I can find shelter.

It's still a paradox to have love and compassion around such deep hurt, but it's important to remember that doesn't imply tolerance or approval of what happened in any way. It only means I don't have to feed it anymore, giving it further strength.

Once the self-compassion part kicks in, the other can fade into obscurity. I visualize it as putting it all in a box, then closing it, locking the lid -- and losing the key. In its own way, that's the 'love and compassion' into which the hurt parts can settle, not forgotten but not feeding the reactions anymore. That's still hard, but worthwhile aiming for. 
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Hope67 on March 12, 2019, 06:27:48 PM
Hi Woodsgnome, I find what you wrote very thought-provoking and thank you for sharing it.   :hug:
Hope  :)
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on May 20, 2019, 11:55:09 PM
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

~ E.E. Cummings.
He says "...we do not believe ... until ..." Seems so simple, and yet it's the biggest challenge sometimes, to find even a hint of what he says.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on July 08, 2019, 05:00:03 PM
Sometimes it seems like the only road we know of has disappeared, vanished. And then ...

"When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?"

~ Nancy Willard ~

Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Three Roses on July 08, 2019, 05:00:59 PM
Ooooo I love that one, WG!  :yes:
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Errorzone on October 28, 2019, 08:44:22 PM
"I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on March 30, 2020, 03:45:57 PM
"Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other."    ~~~Parker J. Palmer

While we only communicate here via posts and other resources, this quote I think summarizes well why it's still valuable to connect this way. Indeed, some of us have very few (or none!) other contacts we can trust as much as those on this forum.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Three Roses on March 30, 2020, 04:19:44 PM
 :cheer:
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on November 16, 2020, 12:13:48 AM
Former astronaut Eugene Cernak: "...there is only light if sunlight has something to shine on. When the sun shines through space, it's black. The light must have something to strike."

       :yeahthat: :sunny:

I just read this in a wonderful book by Paula D'Arcy -- Stars at Night -- When Darkness Unfolds as Light. Written as a commentary on her own grief survival story, its dark topic -- what to do, and be, after devastating personal losses -- I found highly relevant to what we discuss on this forum; our grief over our own deep losses.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on May 03, 2021, 01:09:38 AM
"Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally, heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams, healing can begin." – Danielle Bernock

"The Ache" was a term I've used for years in reference to what the whole mess of CPTSD feels like. I still feel it, but reading this quote I realize there's also this scream. Being internal, no one else hears it, and it makes "the Ache" seem even worse. The other apt term used by the author refers to the "one being held captive." Know that one, too.

I know -- just words -- but they resonated deep and clear for me when I read them. me
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Not Alone on May 03, 2021, 01:11:36 AM
That resonates with me too. Thanks for sharing, Woodsgnome.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Kizzie on May 03, 2021, 04:53:21 PM
 :thumbup:  Tks for sharing this WG  :hug:
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on August 19, 2021, 03:46:57 PM
Holding What Must Be Held (excerpt from a poem)

When I think I can't ache any more,
the world serves more heartache.
And I meet it.

I say no, but I feel myself stretched
by some great invisible hand,
rendering me spacious enough to hold
what must be held.

— Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Rosemary Wahtola Trommer is a wonderful poet who creates beautiful contemplations about 'stretching' our capacity for spaciousness. It reminds me of the familiar saying about how it's the crack that lets the light in. But finding a way to create the opening, and not be scared of it -- that's the hard part, eh?
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: BeeKeeper on August 25, 2021, 03:33:52 PM
woodgnome,

yes,
Quotefinding a way to create the opening, and not be scared of it -- that's the hard part, eh?

very inspiring, thank you!
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Blueberry on September 12, 2021, 06:59:24 PM
Two quotes I've come across in the past couple of days:

"People with an upper hand tend to make another's experience small." I don't know who it's from, but it makes me think of what happens to me when I'm being bullied - somebody tries to make me or my feelings or my thoughts small. I like this quote because it helps me see I'm not the first one to experience this under a bully.

The other one: "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Elie Wiesel
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on January 28, 2022, 07:26:01 AM
I'm frequently 'haunted' by ghostly sounds in the form of re-hearing the taunts, shouts, and shame-talk of those who abused me years ago. While I've learned to vocally respond and not hide under the covers like I used to, running into the quote below gives me another perspective which I like. So here it is:

"I am peace, that is who I am, while old ghosts trespass on land which isn't theirs."

      ~ Simon Parke ~
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on January 28, 2022, 07:51:19 AM
 :doh: Wouldn't ya know, just after posting the above quote by Parke, I went online and ran smack into the following quote which dove-tails nicely with the Parke quote, with the aha  :bigwink: feeling of how these things work. The second quote:

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
Dan Millman


Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Hope67 on May 18, 2022, 06:50:39 PM
Hi Woodsgnome,
Wow, those two quotes are perfect, thanks for sharing them.   :hug:
Hope  :)
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Blueberry on April 06, 2023, 08:46:57 PM
From over at OOTF: "Every interaction w/ PD persons results in damage — prep beforehand and make time after to heal", it's in mbr Spring Butterfly's signature.

Even interaction in my head with FOO mbrs results in damage and I need time to heal from it.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Kizzie on April 07, 2023, 02:41:54 PM
That is so completely true BB and I don't think those who haven't been subject to N abuse get it sadly.  I just had the Outreach Worker from my inpatient program say to me during a checkup phone call this week "Just let it go" (re my NM dying and my mixed feelings about that).  Yup, sage advice from a MSW clinician.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Blueberry on April 16, 2023, 01:48:15 PM
Another 'good' quote, though new to me, could turn out a fave though: Patrick Teahan talking about abusive families and childhood trauma based on his own experience and his clients' experiences "basically from age 0 to 20/21 it's one long gaslighting experience" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hope nobody is triggered by that. Me, I seem in the mood to laugh rn. Of course it's sad, but we all know that sadness in and devastation to our lives. Patrick Teahan isn't suggesting that our experiences are/were something to laugh at. Just a spot of humour directed at our abusive parents >:D
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on April 20, 2023, 11:19:43 PM
Simon Parke: "Your past is a springboard, not a chaperone."

Yes, yes, yes, and again -- yes!!! The past -- it's there, but I'm not. My ego/memory wants to go there, but the real "me" doesn't.

I'm on a journey, finding my own pace, and space, in my own wilderness of mind. Yes, the mind can glance back; and yes, it affects my present. But I'm also -- NOT THERE, IN THAT PAST.
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: MommaDew on November 19, 2023, 06:27:50 PM
"If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got" 

Change can be empowering !
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: woodsgnome on January 10, 2024, 08:09:32 PM
"Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted." CHRISTINE CAINE

from the book by Compton, Ellen. Good Things Happen in the Dark: A Candid Manifesto for Courageous Authenticity.

This imagery brought to mind the earlier (1908) book THE SECRET GARDEN and its subsequent serialization on BBC TV in 1975. Both of these were discussed by several people on this forum a few years ago.

   
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Blueberry on January 10, 2024, 08:10:43 PM
Quote from: woodsgnome on January 10, 2024, 08:09:32 PM"Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted." CHRISTINE CAINE
 

Love that quote!
Title: Re: Favourite Quotes - Part 3
Post by: Rizzo on February 25, 2024, 09:41:22 AM
This is a quote I like from a great movie "The Usual Suspects"
"The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He Didn't Exist."

Harry potter, by Albus Dumbledore
"happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

The Movie: Nymphomaniac
"Perhaps the only difference between me and other people was that I've always demanded more from the sunset; more spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin".