Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.