“When I grow up,” he pronounced, “I shall take care to have three really peculiar families at least. I want crowds of mad relatives.”
“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“I am you and you are me. We are alone, but not alone. We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Made of flesh, but also stars.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you ‘admit to’, it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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