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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons,…

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,…
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out…
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or…
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that…
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you…
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us.…
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply…
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on…
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of…

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I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier. — Terry Bradshaw
The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted. — Robert Kiyosaki
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain… — Hasan of Basra
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence — Billy Corgan
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon
I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to… — Larry Doby
What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly… — Fred Rogers
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had… — Sonny Rollins
Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted… — Alfie Kohn
It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and… — Jean Vanier
If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I… — Duane Michals

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