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Life Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
- St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow…
- Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
- Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is,…
- the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness…
- Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
- Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
- Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.
- No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias…
- We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
- Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad…
- It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
- I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly…
- Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to…
- I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming…
- We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
- I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal…
- It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad…
- Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow…
- I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will…
- The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
- I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.
- You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly,…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle