Brian Cham

“Passengers on a bus: You’re driving a bus. Passengers (your thoughts) get on, and passengers get off. Some stay longer than others, but they all eventually leave the bus. Some smell; some yell; some even tell you you’re taking a wrong turn. And some smile and make your day. Either way, you know your route and it’s not up to you to do anything but keep driving the bus.”
― Andrea Bonior, Detox Your Thoughts: Quit Negative Self-Talk for Good and Discover the Life You've Always Wanted

“The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some ‘norm’), the freedom to learn from experience…”
― David Brin, Sundiver

“Two or three years after the 1947 Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan to exchange their lunatics in the same manner as they had exchanged their criminals. The Muslim lunatics in India were to be sent over to Pakistan and the Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistan asylums were to be handed over to India. It was difficult to say whether the proposal made any sense or not.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh

“We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany.”
― Dacher Keltner, Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life