1. “It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him… .” — Carl Jung

    “It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him… .”

    — Carl Jung

  2. “That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn’t even really me then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.” — Ken Kesey

    “That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn’t even really me then; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.”

    — Ken Kesey

  3. “The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.” — Alice Roosevelt Logworth

    “The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.”

    — Alice Roosevelt Logworth

  4. “If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me—the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the appreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart—I would say, ‘This is a Faustian bargain! Give me my depressions. Let the darkness descend. But do not take away the gifts that depression, with the help of some unseen hand, has dredged up from the deep ocean of my soul and strewn along the shores of my life. I can endure darkness if I must; but I cannot live without these gifts. I cannot live without my soul.” —David N. Elkins  

    “If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me—the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the appreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart—I would say, ‘This is a Faustian bargain! Give me my depressions. Let the darkness descend. But do not take away the gifts that depression, with the help of some unseen hand, has dredged up from the deep ocean of my soul and strewn along the shores of my life. I can endure darkness if I must; but I cannot live without these gifts. I cannot live without my soul.”

    —David N. Elkins  

  5. “I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.” — Dorothy Parker

    “I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.”

    — Dorothy Parker

  6. “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.” — Anais Nin

    “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”

    — Anais Nin

  7. “I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me. “  — Jim Rohn

    “I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me. “ 

    — Jim Rohn

  8. “Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.  Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.”  — Craig Ferguson

    “Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. 

    Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.” 

    — Craig Ferguson

  9. “How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words.” — Dave Eggers ———————— Lateral Symmetry runs repeats on the weekend (The Weekend Refresh) and unfortunately this post from a year ago feels sadly relevant today. Also, in a small break from the format, I’d like to include this, by The AV Club’s Nathan Rabin: “Yauch’s life and career are a testament to the possibilities of emotional, creative, and artistic growth. A man who rose to fame peddling a proudly obnoxious form of adolescent nihilism grew up to be a man whose life and career were defined by idealism and integrity. Adam Yauch wanted to make the world a more compassionate, loving, and funky place. He succeeded. The world is poorer for his loss but richer for the contributions he made.” Clicking the pic will take you to the rest of the article. It’s well worth your time.

    “How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words.”

    — Dave Eggers

    ————————

    Lateral Symmetry runs repeats on the weekend (The Weekend Refresh) and unfortunately this post from a year ago feels sadly relevant today.

    Also, in a small break from the format, I’d like to include this, by The AV Club’s Nathan Rabin:

    “Yauch’s life and career are a testament to the possibilities of emotional, creative, and artistic growth. A man who rose to fame peddling a proudly obnoxious form of adolescent nihilism grew up to be a man whose life and career were defined by idealism and integrity. Adam Yauch wanted to make the world a more compassionate, loving, and funky place. He succeeded. The world is poorer for his loss but richer for the contributions he made.”

    Clicking the pic will take you to the rest of the article. It’s well worth your time.

  10. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”  — Albert Einstein

    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” 

    — Albert Einstein

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Combining disparate sources to educate, elucidate, and entertain. Contact: lateralsymmetry@ gmail.com

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