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I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have…

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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…
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving…
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and…
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.

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The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his… — J C Ryle
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard
My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her… — P.G. Wodehouse
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the… — Kay Redfield Jamison
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make… — Friedrich August von Hayek
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into… — Michael Pollan
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. — Claude Bernard
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the… — Emile Durkheim

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