Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It’s childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I’m scared of being alone in what I feel.

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

Dealing with behavior out of the here-and-now is a waste of time.

Fritz Perls

Paint the soul. Never mind the legs and arms.

Ralph McTell

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.