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“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.”
― John Green

“There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.”
― Byron Katie

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
― Martin Buber

“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

*Harmless untruths”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Fourth, the system of conceptual metaphors is not arbitrary or just historically contingent; rather, it is shaped to a significant extent by the common nature of our bodies and the shared ways that we all function in the everyday world.”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By

“See the cat? See the cradle?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

“Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary contains the following entry: Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature