Wisdom Quote by Lawrence Nault — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The world does not need your certainty. It needs your willingness to stay, to change, to learn again.”

“When you walk the land with respect, it remembers you. Not with words, but with echoes that guide you back when you’re lost.”

“What you love, you fight for. What you truly love, you protect without needing to win.”

“Some truths arrive slowly, like fog rolling in. You don’t see them all at once, but they change everything you thought was solid.”

“Hope is not naive—it is disciplined courage.”

“The ones who move gently through the world leave deeper footprints than the ones who shout.”

“Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.”

“Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”

“LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.”

“Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.”

“But partly it was my own professional background, my training in psychology, that rather than helping me—made it almost impossible for me to face what was happening. Back when I studied psychology in the 1950s, there was only one cause for all mental illnesses, even the most severe: a faulty upbringing. Everything was tied to the way you were raised. There were different schools of thought, of course. Some practitioners followed a Freudian model where understanding the id, the ego and the superego gave the answer to everything. Some followed Jung, with his emphasis on unconscious myths. But everyone believed that it was early life experiences that were behind mental disorders. A patient with serious mental problems had been subject at an early age to unacceptable pressures, to confusing messages, or to some destructive behavior on the part of the parents.”