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“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Practice makes the master.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Poor manners on my part. What is your name?"
"Ria."
"Ria, is that short for Rian?"
"Yes, it is," she smiled.
"Rian, would you please cross your legs?"
The request was made with such an earnest tone that not even a titter escaped the class. Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs.
"Now that the gates of hell are closed," Hemme said in his normal rougher tones. "We can begin.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“I learned to love the feel of good words.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Metal rusts, music lasts forever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss , The Name of the Wind

“I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“- What's in the water?
- Flowers and the part of the moon that isn't in the sky tonight.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
― W.H. Auden

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ”
― Socrates

“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind.”
― C.G. Jung, The Essential Jung: Selected Writings

“The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”
― George Lakoff, Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought

“If you want to live the fullness of your life—if you want to be free—you must understand, first, why you are not free, what keeps you from being free. The word prison comes from the Latin praehendere, meaning to seize, grasp, capture. A prison doesn’t have to be a physical place; it can be anything your mind creates. What has taken ahold of you? The natural process of socialization requires that the individual be influenced by Shoulds in order to function as a part of society. However, as you grow up, it is healthy to be self-aware about the Shoulds you inherited. You might value and keep some Shoulds, while others you might choose to discard. If you want to know Must, get to know Should. This is hard work. Really hard work. We unconsciously imprison ourselves to avoid our most primal fears. We choose Should because choosing Must is terrifying, incomprehensible. Our prison is constructed from a lifetime of Shoulds, the world of choices we’ve unwittingly agreed to, the walls that alienate us from our truest, most authentic selves. Should is the doorkeeper to Must. And just as you create your prison, you can set yourself free.”
― Elle Luna

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.”
― R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise

“Wisdom precludes boldness.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”
― B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement; A Theoretical Analysis

“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.”
― Haim G. Ginott

“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.”
― Tony Gaskins

“I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight”
― Nirad C. Chaudhuri

“Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with the same rhythm. The traditional ruling class, which has numerous trained cadres, changes men and programmes and, with greater speed than is achieved by the subordinate classes, reabsorbs the control that was slipping from its grasp. Perhaps it may make sacrifices, and expose itself to an uncertain future by demagogic promises; but it retains power, reinforces it for the time being, and uses it to crush its adversary and disperse his leading cadres, who cannot be be very numerous or highly trained.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

“Remember that you always have the right to be treated with respect, and to protest unfair treatment or criticism. It’s vital to reinforce those rights with boundaries.”
― Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters