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“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
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“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
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“La verdadera compasión nace cuando se entiende que lo que alguien percibe como la verdad es, a todos los efectos, la verdad. Da exactamente igual que esto sea manifiestamente incierto para ti y para todos los demás.”
― Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
― Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music
“Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“He repeated the story he liked to tell us. The one with the small boy who was trying to lift a rock in his garden, and the boy’s dad was watching him heave and sweat and struggle, but get nowhere. Eventually the dad asks, ‘Why don’t you use all of your strength?’ And the boy says, ‘I am, Daddy. I am using all of my strength.’ And his dad says, ‘No you’re not. You haven’t asked me for help.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
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