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"When I begin to work on myself, sometimes things get worse before they get better. It is okay if this happens, because I know that it's the beginning of the process. It's untangling old threads. I just flow with it. It takes time and effort to learn what I need to learn. I don't demand instant change."
"It is okay to ask for help. I give help when others need it, and ask for help when I need it."
"For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it."
"Life is bringing me everything I need and MORE!"
"Life always brings you what you need."
"The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us."
"[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content."
"The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
"If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings."
"Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous."
"Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult."
"Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me."
