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• By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Successful, Blood

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• Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

  Homer

  Literature, Compare

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• Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.54, New World Library

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• Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

  Nick Hornby

  People, Healthy, Lovable

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Buddhist, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Laughing

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.166, Hayes Barton Press

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• If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Inspirational, Life, God

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.123, Race Point Publishing

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• …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

  Kate Bornstein

  Black And White, Rainbow, Gender

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.133, Routledge

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• It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Mad, Being Me

  Robert Browning (2012). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• -I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Doubt, Matter, Not Sure

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• You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

  Graham Chapman

  Country, People, Today

  "Monty Python's Flying Circus". TV Series, 1969 - 1974.

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• Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

  Jim Butcher

  Smart, Stupid, Camels

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• I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Half, Facts

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.597, University of Illinois Press

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• My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Names, Mad, Hallucinations

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• If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people, then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you.

  Rajneesh

  People, Mad, Healthy

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• The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Doors, Self, Sky

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• Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Space, Teeth

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.702, Del Rey

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• Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

  Sarah Kane

  Beautiful, Lying, Insanity

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.229, A&C Black

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• By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.

  Gayle Forman

  Years, Too Late, Firsts

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• Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

  David Bowie

  Time, Sunrise, Battle

  Song: Aladdin Sane, Album: Aladdin Sane, 1973

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• Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

  Edna Ferber

  Philosophy, Food, Eye

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney”, p.2, Booklassic

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• I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Believe, Men

  "Credo". Book by Erich Fromm, 1965.

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• The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability -- consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Philosophy, Advice

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• War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• On the secret to a lasting marrige: One of you has to be sane, and the other one is only allowed to be insanne occasionally. We take turnes on who gets to be wich person

  Christopher Meloni

  Love, Funny, Secret

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