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Kay Redfield Jamison has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that... it sounds, well, I don't care…
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
— Thomas Paine
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I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
— George Eliot
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction,…
— Nikola Tesla
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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
— James C. Collins
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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
— Al Gore
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates.
— William Vaughn Moody
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because…
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.…
— Richard Rolle
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To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all…
— Carl Jung
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