“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“The present situation is to be regarded as one of opportunity for us and not disaster. There will only be cheerful facts at this conference table.”— General Patton, entrepreneur.com
“Surprise people to counter any fixed image they may have of you.”— Dorie Clark, well.blogs.nytimes.com
“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied—or, for that matter, awarded — because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some ele…”— Kevin Brockmeier, amazon.com
“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, en.wikipedia.org
“I am not blind, nor deaf. I know you all believe me weak, frightened, feeble. Your father knew me better. Oberyn was ever the viper. Deadly, dangerous, unpredictable. No man dared tread on him. I was the grass. Pleasant, complaisant, sweet-smelling, swaying with every breeze. Who fears to walk upon…”— George R. R. Martin, Doran Martell, amazon.com
“What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagina…”— Ralph Ellison, barnesandnoble.com