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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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• Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Religious, Lying, Moving

  "Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!". Ambassador Report Interview with Len Zola, hwarmstrong.com. 1977.

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• Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mad, World, Handicaps

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• America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

  Stephen Colbert

  Jobs, America, Cost

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• Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Ignorance, Two

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• With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

  Laozi

  Peace, Power, Conquer The World

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving Up, Important, Clarity

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Accomplishment, Difficult Times, Difficult

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• Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

  Euripides

  Pain, Madness

  Euripides (1997). “Medea: Hippolytus ; Electra ; Helen”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

  Norman Cousins

  Thinking, People, Design

  Saturday Review (editorial), 1971.

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• New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.

  Muriel Spark

  New York, Home, Mind

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Jan 03, 2017

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• This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.

  Doris Lessing

  Strong, Thinking, Civilization

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Appreciation, Humorous, Wrestling

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 44 - With Mahatma Gandhi At Wardha, 1946.

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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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