Quotes: Sheldon Kopp

"You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences."

 –– Sheldon Kopp (1929-1999), American psychotherapist and author 

via: Commonplace Book, 2024, 2025, p. 33.

Quotes: Claire McMillan

"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. 

Quotes: Marcus Aurelius

"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.

Quotes: Søren Kierkegaard

"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.

Quotes: Miss Marion Brook

 "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)

Quotes: Gay Hendricks

"[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. 

Quotes: Carl Jung

"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.