"We don't seek the painful experiences that hew……" — Andrew Solomon
"We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences."
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60 Quotes by Andrew Solomon
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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my…
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond…
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical…
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of…
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.…
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible…
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You…
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history.…
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference…
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts…
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The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not…
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the…
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More Experiences Quotes
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
— Sai Baba
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
— Christian Bale
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My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But…
— Drew Barrymore
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
— Gregory Bateson
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called…
— Alfred Adler
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You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
— Stella Adler
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