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  • #1
    Alistair McHarg
    “Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.”
    Alistair McHarg, Invisible Driving

  • #2
    Marya Hornbacher
    “When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.”
    Marya Hornbacher, Madness: A Bipolar Life

  • #3
    Alyssa Reyans
    “Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.”
    Alyssa Reyans, Letters from a Bipolar Mother

  • #4
    Amy Reed
    “I feel like I'm a snow globe and someone shook me up and now every little piece of me is falling back randomly and nothing is ending up where it used to be.”
    Amy Reed, Crazy

  • #5
    Marya Hornbacher
    “I am mad. The thought calms me. I don't have to try to be sane anymore. It's over. I sleep”
    Marya Hornbacher

  • #6
    Jonathan Harnisch
    “You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.”
    Jonathan Harnisch, Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography

  • #7
    Jennifer Niven
    “What do you know about bipolar disorder?” I almost say, What do you know about it? But I make myself breathe and smile. “Is that the Jekyll-Hyde thing?” My voice sounds flat and even. Maybe a little bored, even though my mind and body are on alert. “Some people call it manic depression. It’s a brain disorder that causes extreme shifts in mood and energy. It runs in families, but it can be treated.” I continue to breathe, even if I’m not smiling anymore, but here is what is happening: my brain and my heart are pounding out different rhythms; my hands are turning cold and the back of my neck is turning hot; my throat has gone completely dry. The thing I know about bipolar disorder is that it’s a label. One you give crazy people. I know this because I’ve taken junior-year psychology and I’ve seen movies and I’ve watched my father in action for almost eighteen years, even though you could never slap a label on him because he would kill you. Labels like “bipolar” say This is why you are the way you are. This is who you are. They explain people away as illnesses.”
    Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

  • #8
    “A vivid Imagination is awesome a Manic Imagination is a curse.”
    Stanley Victor Paskavich

  • #9
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #10
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #12
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
    tags: love

  • #13
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #14
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #15
    Steve Maraboli
    “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #16
    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #17
    Walt Whitman
    “Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #18
    Rupi Kaur
    “what love looks like

    what does love look like the therapist asks
    one week after the breakup
    and i’m not sure how to answer her question
    except for the fact that i thought love
    looked so much like you

    that’s when it hit me
    and i realized how naive i had been
    to place an idea so beautiful on the image of a person
    as if anybody on this entire earth
    could encompass all love represented
    as if this emotion seven billion people tremble for
    would look like a five foot eleven
    medium-sized brown-skinned guy
    who likes eating frozen pizza for breakfast

    what does love look like the therapist asks again
    this time interrupting my thoughts midsentence
    and at this point i’m about to get up
    and walk right out the door
    except i paid too much money for this hour
    so instead i take a piercing look at her
    the way you look at someone
    when you’re about to hand it to them
    lips pursed tightly preparing to launch into conversation
    eyes digging deeply into theirs
    searching for all the weak spots
    they have hidden somewhere
    hair being tucked behind the ears
    as if you have to physically prepare for a conversation
    on the philosophies or rather disappointments
    of what love looks like

    well i tell her
    i don’t think love is him anymore
    if love was him
    he would be here wouldn’t he
    if he was the one for me
    wouldn’t he be the one sitting across from me
    if love was him it would have been simple
    i don’t think love is him anymore i repeat
    i think love never was
    i think i just wanted something
    was ready to give myself to something
    i believed was bigger than myself
    and when i saw someone
    who probably fit the part
    i made it very much my intention
    to make him my counterpart

    and i lost myself to him
    he took and he took
    wrapped me in the word special
    until i was so convinced he had eyes only to see me
    hands only to feel me
    a body only to be with me
    oh how he emptied me

    how does that make you feel
    interrupts the therapist
    well i said
    it kind of makes me feel like shit

    maybe we’re looking at it wrong
    we think it’s something to search for out there
    something meant to crash into us
    on our way out of an elevator
    or slip into our chair at a cafe somewhere
    appear at the end of an aisle at the bookstore
    looking the right amount of sexy and intellectual
    but i think love starts here
    everything else is just desire and projection
    of all our wants needs and fantasies
    but those externalities could never work out
    if we didn’t turn inward and learn
    how to love ourselves in order to love other people

    love does not look like a person
    love is our actions
    love is giving all we can
    even if it’s just the bigger slice of cake
    love is understanding
    we have the power to hurt one another
    but we are going to do everything in our power
    to make sure we don’t
    love is figuring out all the kind sweetness we deserve
    and when someone shows up
    saying they will provide it as you do
    but their actions seem to break you
    rather than build you
    love is knowing who to choose”
    Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers



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