The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel. - Esther Hicks
Schizoid behaviour is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.