Quotations

"Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"My favorite definition of fear is “False Expectations Appearing Real,” and when I allow myself to remember that all of my thoughts are merely fleeting physiology, I feel less moved when my story-teller goes haywire and my circuitry is triggered."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"Yelling louder does not help me understand you any better! Don't be afraid of me. Come closer to me. Bring me your gentle spirit. Speak more slowly. Enunciate more clearly. Again! Please, try again. S-l-o-w down. Be kind to me. Be a safe place for me. See that I am a wounded animal, not a stupid animal. I am vulnerable and confused. Whatever my age, whatever my credentials, reach for me. Respect me. I am in here. Come find me."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"Peace is only a thought away."

— Jill Taylor, American brain scientist, born 1959

"With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it."

— Robert Taylor, American actor, born August 5, 1911

"Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music."

— Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, born 1840

"After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison."

— Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, born 1840

"Time and space -- time to be alone, space to move about -- these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow."

— Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist, born June 2, 1899

"I saw a star slide down the sky, blinding the north as it went by. Too burning and too quick to hold, Too lovely to be bought or sold. Good only to make wishes on, and then forever to be gone."

— Sara Teasdale, American poet, died January 29, 1933

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."

— Sara Teasdale, American poet, born August 8, 1884

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself."

— Tecumseh, Native American Shawnee warrior, born 1768

"Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle."

— Shirley Temple, American actress, died February 10, 2014