Quotes:  Food for Thought 


         I've been collecting quotes for over thirty years, things people have said that are wise,         inspiring, thought-provoking, or humorous that have had a nurturing and sustaining 
        effect on my life and at times helped make it seem like it's worth the effort, or at least 
        got me through the day.  Don't make the mistake of assuming I live up to them, but
        they remind me of how I want to try to think and live, giving me a direction I want to
        move toward. This page is dedicated to those little bon mots with the hope that some
        may serve others the way they have me.


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            One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with
            gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum 
            is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element 
            for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. 
                                                                                                       Carl Jung


            [The] man who thinks he can live without myth, or outside it, like one 
            uprooted, has no true link either with the past, or with the ancestral 
            life which continues within him, or yet with contemporary human 
            society. This plaything of his reason never grips his vitals.
 
                                                                                                        Carl Jung






        This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of         human beings as rational creatures. We become hypnotized, and do not         notice . . . equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of         reason, sanity and civilization. 
                                                                                                  Doris Lessing

​        A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t         become good just because it’s accepted by a majority.  

                                                                                       Booker T Washington





        There is a possibility of your having a decent attitude toward people         and work. That alone may make a man of you. 

                                                                                 Sherwood Anderson

        You and I don’t know whether our vision is clear in relation to our 
        time or not—No matter what failure or success we may have—we 
        will not know—But we can keep our integrity—according to our 
        own sense of balance with the world and that creates our form. 

                                                                                    Georgia O’Keeffe




​        When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace         instead becomes a circus.  

                                                                                                  Turkish proverb

        To be an artist is also a guarantee to your fellow humans that the wear 
        and tear of living will not let you become someone other than yourself. 

                                                                                                     Ocean Vuong

        A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living. Virginia Woolf




        In America, we have this myth that capitalists like competition. But no         capitalist wants competition. What all companies want is monopoly. 

                                                                                              Bryant Simon


        An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal         ailment of all republics. 

                                                                                                 Plutarch


        There are hundred-year-old trees, but there is no hundred-year-old 
        power.    Saying of Karakachan shepherds in Bulgaria



        Today we simply no longer know what a myth is; for it is no mere         aesthetically pleasing mode of representing something to oneself, 
        but a piece of the most lively actuality that mines every corner of the         waking consciousness and shakes the innermost structure of being.

                                                                                      Oswald Spengler

        The creative imagination is the only primordial phenomenon         accessible to us, the real Ground of the psyche, the only immediate         reality . . . All other realities are derived from and indirectly revealed 
        by it, actually with the artificial aid named science.     

                                                                                                  Carl Jung