"Illusion is a comfortable garment thrown over an uncomfortable truth which, left too long covered, must rot."
–– Ann-Marie MacDonald (b. 1958), Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host
Source: Ann-Marie MacDonald. Fayne. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022; p. 681.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 33.
–– Sheldon Kopp (1929-1999), American psychotherapist and author
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 33.
"Despite her exhaustion, Remedios felt the energy of novelty. The trees were different here, the streets, the smells; it enlivened her. She'd been forced into change for so long now that it felt comforting, even as she landed in a new country with nothing but a suitcase."
–– Claire McMillan, American author
Source: Claire McMillan. Alchemy of a Blackbird. Toronto: Atria Books (Simon and Schuster), 2023; p. 132.
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 35.
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 34.
"What is anxiety? It is the next day. With whom, then, does the pagan contend in anxiety? With himself, with a delusion, because the next day is a powerless nothing if you yourself do not give it your strength."
–– Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, and social critic
via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2025, p. 34.
"You mustn't be afraid to fail or you'll never succeed."
–– Miss Marion Brook, character on The Gilded Age 2.2 (American TV show)
"[B]aseball, like life, required the same letting go of expectations to really allow enjoyment."
–– Gay Hendricks (b. 1945), American psychologist and writer
Source: Gay Hendricks, Lindsay Tinker. The Fourth Rule of Ten. New York: Hay House, 2015; p. 309.
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 74.
"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites."
–– Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist
via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 63.
