Agneta Jakab

“People with ADD are forever told that they are “too sensitive” or that they should stop being “so touchy.” One might as well advise a child with hay fever to stop being “so allergic.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“ADD is also found more commonly in people whose first-degree relatives are alcoholics or suffer from depression, anxiety, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder or Tourette’s syndrome.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“Whenever we ascribe a motive to the other person, as in “you are doing this because...,” we discard curiosity and immobilize compassion.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“Then how can prayers be answered if you do not call upon the saints to help? God is obviously too busy to do everything alone.”
― Rhys Bowen, The Tuscan Child