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Thomas Mann "Buddenbrooks"
Marilyn Yalom (?) A History of the wife, of the Breast, Birth of the Chess Queen.
Cloud Atlas, Davi Mitchell

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Good Will Hunting
The Bob Newhart Show

"Life is a mirable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it"

"Arthur was he perfect name for the position. It was a name spelled the same in all major European languages, a name which would slip gracefully through all national borders. But, most important of all, it was an English name"

"The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality, all else being the play of thought. But we could just as well call it our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort".

"As a consequence of this episode, the latter-day Julius had an equisitive sensivity to the phenomenon of "role-lock": how often had he seen group therapy patients change dramatically but continue to be perceived as the same person by the other group members. Happens also in families. Many of his improved patients had a hell of a time when visiting their parents: they had to guard against being sucked back into their old family role and had to expend considerable energy persuading parents and siblings that they were indeed changed".

The trouble with a kitten is that
Eventually it becomes a cat (Ogden Nash?)

"I know what that's like," said Julius. "I have those same knee-jerk reactions to criticism. But let me tell you what I've learned to do. The real trick is to think of feedback as a gift, but first you must decide whether it's accurate. The way I proceed is to check in with myself and ask whether it clicks with my own experience of myself. Does any part, even tad of it, even five percent, ring true? I try to recall if people in the past had given me this feedback before. I think about other people with whom I can check it out. I wonder if someone is honing in on one of my blind spots, something they see that I do not. Can you try this?"

"One thing sticks out in my mind from those hour together, Julius. I remember you telling me about a novel where someone seeks a wise man who tells him that alternatives exclude, that for every yes there has to be a no."

"In his journal Goethe described the ending of his relationship with Arthur Schopenhauer: "We discussed a good many things in agreement; eventually, however, a certain separation proved unavoidable, as when two friends, having walked together so far, shake hands, one wanting to go north and the other south, and very soon losing sight of one another"

"No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose".

"The only way you can save your marriage is to be willing (and able) to leave it".

"Even in my youth I noticed in myself that, whereas others strived for external possessions, I did not have to turn to such things because I carried within me a treasure infinitely more valuable than all external possessions; and the main thing was to enhance the treasure for which mental development and complete independence are the primary conditions....
Contrary to nature and the rights of man, I had to withdraw my powers from the advancement of my own well-being, in order to devote them to the service of mankind. My intellect belonged not to me but to the world".

"Whoever seeks peace and quiet should avoid women, the permanent source of trouble and dispute. - Petrarch"

"When, at times, I felt unhappy it was because I took myself to be other than I was and then deplored that other person's misery and distress. For example, I took myself to be a lecturer who does not come a professor and has no one to hear his lectures; or to be one about whom this Philistine speak ill or that scandalmonger gossips; or to be the lover who is not listened to by the girl whom he is infatuated; or to be the patient who is kept home by illness; or to be other persons afficted with similar miseries. I have not been any of these; all this is the stuff from which the coat has been made which I wore for a short time and which I then discarded in exchange for another.
But, then, who am I? I am the man who has written The World as Will and Representation which has given a solution to the great problem of existence which perhaps will render obsolete all previous solution.... I am that man, and what could disturb him in the few years in which he has still to draw breath".

"Struggling for equanimity, he instructed himself: Don't struggle, don't resist, clear your mind; do nothing but watch the passing show of your thoughts. Just let thoughts drift into conscioness and then drift away.
Things drifted in all right, but there was no drifting out. Instead, images unpacked their bags, hung up their clothes, and set up housekeeping in his mind"

"We should treat with indulgence every human folly, failing, and vice, bearing in mind that what we have before us are simply our own failings, follies, and vices"

"Someone cannot loosen their own chains yet can nontheless liberate their friends" Nietzche