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Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to…

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,…
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out…
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or…
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that…
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you…
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us.…
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply…
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on…
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of…

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Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open. — James Broughton
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon… — Gemma Galgani
Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about — Ed Harris
In the penitentiary you learn this: don't lie. Don't lie, man. If someone catches you in a lie you leave yourself open… — Charles Manson
I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut… — Anne Enright
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon
Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because… — Craig Silvey
Love yourself, open your heart which means doing the work on yourself first. Then love will follow. — Unknown Author
To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self… — Wilferd Peterson
The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take… — Janis Ian
I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to… — Keeley Hawes
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see… — Kazuo Ishiguro

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