James Bugental famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.

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