George Vaillant Quotes
Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
Quotes to Explore
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Intentions count in your actions.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
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A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
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I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.
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There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.
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We're living in hard times.
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We did our best the last couple of weeks, we really put on a push. But the teams ahead of us were also playing playoff hockey.
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I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.
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I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.
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I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
