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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    R.D. Laing
    “Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”
    ― R.D. Laing
    tags: despair, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia
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    Mira Bartok
    “We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.”
    ― Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace
    tags: schizophrenia, secrets
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    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.”
    ― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
    tags: bipolar, humor, mania, manic, mental-illness, psychology
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    Melody Moezzi
    “Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination.”
    ― Melody Moezzi, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
    tags: bipolar
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    Mario Puzo
    “Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
    ― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
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    “ليس الشديد بالصرعة؛ إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب
    The strong person is not the good wrestler. Rather,the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry.
    (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 73, #135)”
    ― Anonymous
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    Erich Fromm
    “That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
    ― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
    tags: mental-illness, sanity, society
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
    12165 likes

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    Henry Rollins
    “I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
    ― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
    tags: depression, loneliness
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    رضوى عاشور
    “عادة ما أشعر انى خفيفة قادرة على ان أطير وأنا مستقرة فى مقعد أقرأ رواية ممتعة. حين أشعر بنفسى ثقيلة أعرف أنى على مشارف نوبة جديدة من الاكتئاب”
    ― رضوى عاشور, فرج
    tags: depression
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  • #17
    Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
    “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: depression, life, loneliness, sunshine
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: depression
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    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent ”
    ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
    tags: depression
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem
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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: depression, rape
    833 likes

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    Nick Hornby
    “It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
    ― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
    tags: depression
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    Ronald Reagan
    “Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
    ― Ronald Reagan
    tags: definitions, depression, recession, slogan
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert
    tags: depression, loneliness
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    Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
    “Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
    ― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
    tags: anxiety, depressed, depression, esteem, hypnosis, panic, regression, self-confidence
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  • #26
    Charles Bukowski
    “my mother, poor fish,
    wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
    week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
    why don't you ever smile?"

    and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
    saddest smile I ever saw”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: depression, facade, love, motherhood, pain
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    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.”
    ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
    tags: depression
    420 likes

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    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.”
    ― Elizabeth Wurtzel
    tags: depression
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    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”
    ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
    tags: depression, prozac-nation
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    Elizabeth Wurtzel
    “Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. ”
    ― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
    tags: depression, elizabeth-wurtzel, prozac-nation
    198 likes



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