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Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

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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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I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even… — Unknown Author
Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s… — Charles Spurgeon
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I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer.… — Dieter Rams
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who… — Mary MacLane
Our Father in Heaven loves all of His children and desires that they know and understand His plan of happiness. Therefore, He… — Carol F. McConkie
Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name. — Timothy Keller
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name… — Salman Rushdie
There is only one child in the world and the Child’s name is All Children. — Carl Sandburg
Unbelievable. After what just happened between us no, I don’t have any right. None at all. We’re barely a couple. We’re not… — Jennifer Rardin
To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting. — Keith Donohue

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