Quotes of: William-shakespeare Keyword

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

The Rosie Project

How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

The Reptile Room

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

The Reptile Room

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

The Square Book

I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, "don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window." I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom.

The Snail's Castle

Even after she was gone, he passed her place each day: something white in a high window - not a face, but the white belly of a pigeon beating its wings against the pane in the boarded-up house.

The Secret

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.

Sacred Companions: The Gift of Spiritual Friendship and Direction

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Differentiation is a universal struggle that all human beings face if they wish to fully develop themselves as individuals.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.

Spontaneous Healing

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

The Metropolis of Tomorrow

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

Life After Life

Or was it, as everyone told her, and as she must believe, all in her head? And so what if it was - wasn't everything in her head real too? What if there was no demonstrable reality? What if there was nothing beyond the mind?

Life After Life

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

The terrors of the future will not come from the drab repressions of an encroaching bureaucracy, but from the neon lights of a thousand supermarkets, the sounds of a million automobile accidents and from the public cremation of the dead astronauts as...

Mind In Chains