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Medness & Sanity
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what
cage."
Ray Bradbury
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Lang
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality
Jules de Gaultier
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Sanity
"Eagles never display wonder,
or say "'Tis marvel of the age."
For in nature we the children
Only hold the sane as strange."
Kahlil Gibran
"Oh, god, if I'm anything by clinical name,
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse.
I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"
by J. D. Salinger
"Madness is the first step towards
unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is
behind the veil of 'sanity'. The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those
secrets, and madness is the only means."
Kahlil Gibran
My education was dismal. I went to a series of
schools for
mentally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen
Freedom
Freedom is not worth having if it does not
connote freedom to err. M. Gandhi
"Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"Everything can be taken from a man but one
thing: the last of the human
freedoms - to choose one's own way."
Viktor Frankl
Win Or lose !
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can
ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the
ability to hold two opposed ideas in
the mind at the same time, and still retain the
ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that
things are hopeless and yet be
determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To dare is to lose one's footing
momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
Soren Kierkegaard
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot
and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again
more intelligently.
Henry Ford
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow
will be our
doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If you can accept losing, you can't
win."
Vince Lombardi
Any fact facing us is not as important as our
attitude
toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale
"Aim for the highest."
Andrew Carnegie
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the
first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham
Mistakes are their own instructors.
Horace
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream,
not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~Blake
Life & Death
Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism
Anon
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me:
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree.
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember
And if thou wilt, forget.
Christina Rossetti "Song"
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant
blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would
rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and
permanent planet.
Jack London
"It is better to die on your feet than to
live on your knees!" - Emiliano Zapata
"He who has a why to live for can bear
almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no security in life, only opportunity.
Douglas Mac Arthur
Strength and courage
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence
by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face. You
must do the thing which you
think you cannot do" - Eleanor
Roosevelt
"What does not destroy me, makes me
strong." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I was always looking outside myself for
strength and confidence but it comes
from within. It is there all the time."
Anna Freud
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's
whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh
because it hurts so much . . .
because it's the only thing that'll make it stop
hurting."
Robert A. Heinlein
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
William Shakespeare
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes
hardest to bear are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell
The future is on more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
The Serenity Prayer
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made
a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein
Hope
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the
torments of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Hope deceives more men than cunning can.
- Marquis Vauvenargues -
Misc
You have to have a darkness...
for the dawn to come.
Harrison Ford
"Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Paul Tournier
Let the world know you as you are, not as you
think you should be."
Fannie Brice
Who has never tasted bitter does not know what is sweet.
German Proverb
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their
health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through
another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
Heinrich Heine
"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before,
but in saying exactly what you think yourself."
Katherine Anne Porter
"It is better to be hated for what one is, then to be loved for what one is
not."
Andre Gide
"Respect yourself most of all."
Pythagoras
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams
"It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in
line."
Ashleigh Brilliant
"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? but, can they
suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
