“The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Vitality – Andrew Solomon
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality…”
– Andrew Solomon
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Special – Stephen Hawking
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.”
– Stephen Hawking
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This is what you shall do – Walt Whitman
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
— Walt Whitman
“There are three things people tend to confuse: depression, grief and sadness.
Grief is explicitly reactive. If you have a loss and you feel incredibly unhappy, and then, six months later, you are still deeply sad, but you’re functioning a little better, it’s probably grief, and it will probably ultimately resolve itself in some measure.
If you experience a catastrophic loss, and you feel terrible, and six months later you can barely function at all, then it’s probably a depression that was triggered by the catastrophic circumstances.
The trajectory tells us a great deal. People think of depression as being just sadness. It’s much, much too much sadness, much too much grief at far too slight a cause.”
– Andrew Solomon
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Judging people – Morgan House
“…not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.”
– Morgan House
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Intimacy – Andrew Solomon
“There’s no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.”
– Andrew Solomon
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Together – Walt Whitman
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
– Walt Whitman
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Connection – Brene Brown
“The one thing that keeps us out of connection is the fear that we’re not worthy of connection.”
– Brene Brown
“Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist.”
– George Carlin
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Demons – Unknown
“Do not just slay your demons; dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.”
– Unknown
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Two types of people – Unknown
“There are two types of people, those who can extrapolate from incomplete data…”
– Unknown
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Decent bone – Ernest Hemingway
“The only decent bone in her body was mine.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Listen – Chuck Palahniuk
“People don’t listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Judge – Albert Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
– Albert Einstein*
* Disputed