C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Source: Hyperion
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Rock that Is Higher (1993)
“There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book II, The Timepiece, Line 285.
“Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.”
Peragit tranquilla potestas<br/>quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget<br/>imperiosa quies.
Claudian (370–404) Roman Latin poet
Peragit tranquilla potestas<br>quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget<br>imperiosa quies. <br class="br"> Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 239-241 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Claudian/Manlio_Theodoro*.html#239.
“… the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.”
Melody Beattie (1948) American writer
Source: Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
George Wallace (1919–1998) 45th Governor of Alabama
Address to the Montgomery Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (1979), as quoted in "George Wallace – From the Heart" (17 March 1995), The Washington Post.
1970s
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Context: But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?