Our cures are interesting. Our infirmities aren’t. Everyone knows about infirmities.
~ Conversations with Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison on Therapists
…the trouble is, as many will admit, only one therapist out of a thousand is any good.
~ Conversations with Jim Harrison
Seneca on Misery
“A man is as miserable as he thinks he is.”
~ Seneca
Seneca on Malady
“It matters little whether you lay a sick man on a wooden or on a golden bed, for whithersoever he be moved he will carry his malady with him; so one need not care whether the diseased mind is bestowed upon riches or upon poverty. His malady goes with the man.”
~ Seneca
Aristotle on Suffering
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
~ Aristotle
Hunter Thompson on Ideas
“On some days you have good ideas and on some days you have bad ones. The trick is knowing the difference. Instantly.”
~ Hunter Thompson
Buddha on Action
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
~ Buddha
Louise Bourgeois on Art
“Art is a guarantee of sanity”
~ Louise Bourgeois
Buddha on Health
“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
~ Buddha
Buddha on Straying Thoughts
“As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.”
~ Buddha
Buddha on Finding Peace
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
~ Buddha
William Shakespeare on Guilt
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind”
~ William Shakespeare
Noel Coward on Gossip
“Work hard, do the best you can, don’t lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.”
~ Noel Coward
William Shakespeare on Thinking
“for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
~ William Shakespeare
Dalai Lama on Patience
“There is no fortitude like patience, just as there is no destructive emotion worse than hatred. Therefore, practice patience and tolerance.”
~ Dalai Lama
Buddha on Evil
“It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
~ Buddha
Buddha on Thoughts
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
~ Buddha
Robyn Hitchcock on the Mind
“Our natures are determined by the voices in our heads: mean whispers make mean people – the good are shaped by kindly mantras.”
~ Robyn Hitchcock
Kurt Vonnegut on Humanity
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Marcus Aurelius on Tranquility of Mind
“The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
Seneca on the Power of the Mind
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
~ Seneca
Seneca on the Mind
“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”
~ Seneca