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  • #1
    Franz Kafka
    “In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #2
    Paul Bowles
    “Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
    Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

  • #3
    Paul Brunton
    “Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.”
    Paul Brunton, Healing of the Self, the Negatives: Notebooks

  • #4
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're "not at all like yourself but will be soon," but you know you won't.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #5
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #6
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
    tags: love

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #10
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
    which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
    because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
    Every angel is terrible.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #12
    Jared Shurin
    “The un-werewolf only bled at him.”
    Jared Shurin, The Book of the Dead

  • #13
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #14
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”
    Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #16
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “enjoy your problems”
    shunryu suzuki

  • #17
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

    Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”
    Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"

  • #18
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”
    Shunryu Suzuki

  • #19
    Shunryu Suzuki
    “Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
    Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
    Albert Camus

  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus, L’été

  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners

  • #23
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #24
    Julia Kristeva
    “Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation”
    Julia Kristeva, Black Sun

  • #25
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #26
    Martin E.P. Seligman
    “Being in touch with what we do well underpins the readiness to change,” David continued. “This is related to the Losada ratio. To enable us to hear criticism nondefensively and to act creatively on it, we need to feel secure.”
    Martin E.P. Seligman, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being

  • #27
    Martin E.P. Seligman
    “I used to think that the topic of positive psychology was happiness, that the gold standard for measuring happiness was life satisfaction, and that the goal of positive psychology was to increase life satisfaction. I now think that the topic of positive psychology is well-being, that the gold standard for measuring well-being is flourishing, and that the goal of positive psychology is to increase flourishing. This theory, which I call well-being theory, is very different from authentic happiness theory, and the difference requires explanation.”
    Martin E.P. Seligman, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being

  • #28
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #29
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #30
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    Jorge Luis Borges



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