Sanity Quotes - Page 15

• If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

  Edith Wharton

  May, Architecture, Proportion

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

  George Santayana

  Insanity, Madness, Wonderful

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

  Margaret Deland

  Crazy, Unhappy, Sane

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.266, Wildside Press LLC

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• Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Mistake, Unhappy, Normalcy

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

  Renata Adler

  Profound, Moral, Our Time

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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• I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Sweet, Rocks, Balance

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• If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

  Sakyong Mipham

  Love, Kindness, Teaching

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• Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Hero, Government, Justice

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.400, Granta Books

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• Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.

  Bessie Head

  Children, Order, People

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

  Zoë Heller

  Fall, Fighting, Lost Ones

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• Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Noise, Imposition, Noisy

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to maintain their own shields, but not the energy expended by other people. They understand that their own sanity is a performance, but when confronted by other people they confuse the person with the role.

  Keith Johnstone

  Average, People, Energy

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.83, Routledge

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• The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.

  David Rosenhan

  Long, Insanity, Facts

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• The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

  Julie Powell

  Nice, Belief, Nice Things

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• There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

  Charles Bowden

  War, Believe, Two

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• Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

  George Weinberg

  Gay, Self Worth, Way

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• A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sense Of Humor

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Reality, Reason, No Reason

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

  Robert Boswell

  Covering, World, Definitions

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• You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Beneath The Surface, Knows, Fragile

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• The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Mean, Voice, World

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.45, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world.

  Chris Hedges

  Wall, Insane World, Mass Culture

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Acceptance, Simple, Confusion

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, People, Survival

  "Raids on the Unspeakable".

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