If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.Carl Jung
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.Carl Jung
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.Lao Tzu
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.Lao Tzu
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.Lao Tzu
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.Virginia Woolf
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.Virginia Woolf
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.Virginia Woolf
