Hamad

“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.”
― Nassir Ghaemi, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

“You've done so much for me, so much,' he said, 'that my own father and mother could not have done as much: you've made me into a man, God will reward you and I will never forget you...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

“Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“How a man’s powers are wasted in the secret struggle of the soul with passion, how incurable, though bloodless, wounds are inflicted upon the heart and give rise to cries of agony, and how even life may be lost.”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov