Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)
“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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Sylvia Plath
(1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (December 1955), quoted in Joyce Carol Oates, "Raising Lady Lazarus," The New York Times (2000-11-05) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/reviews/001105.05oatest.html
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variant: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Herbert Hoover
(1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
From an article originally published in the February 6, 1949 issue of "This Week" Magazine, from "Addresses Upon the American Road,Volume: Volume 8: 1955-1960." Developed in speech entitled "Moral and Spiritual Recovery from War" presented October 13, 1945, at 75th Anniversary of Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. "The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath", edited by George Nash
The Uncommon Man
Adlai Stevenson
(1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speech, Richmond, Virginia (20 September 1952)
Dallas Willard
(1935–2013) American philosopher
Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
Rollo May
(1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 5 : The Delphic Oracle as Therapist, p. 99
Context: The self is made up, on its growing edge, of the models, forms, metaphors, myths, and all other kinds of psychic content which give it direction in its self-creation. This is a process that goes on continuously. As Kierkegaard well said, the self is only that which it is in the process of becoming. Despite the obvious determinism in human life — especially in the physical aspect of ones self in such simple things as color of eyes, height relative length of life, and so on — there is also, clearly, this element of self-directing, self-forming. Thinking and self-creating are inseparable. When we become aware of all the fantasies in which we see ourselves in the future, pilot ourselves this way or that, this becomes obvious.
