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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…
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I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
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When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
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I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and…
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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and…
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The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,…
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Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and…
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Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in…
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Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is…
— Rajneesh
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"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in…
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For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing…
— James Frey
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Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.
— Milton Friedman
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Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom. If…
— Lauren Bacall
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The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
— Kim Stanley
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