“What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.”
“What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe”
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
“How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.”
“As much as we like to think we grieve for others, she said, it bears keeping in mind that we are also grieving for ourselves and, above all, what has inevitably passed us by.”
“Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.”