Sanity Quotes - Page 6

• I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

  Stephen King

  Writing, School, People

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Doe, Share

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

  Peter Thiel

  Our World, Retail, Might

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 3, 2012.

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• In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

  Jemima Khan

  Hard Work, Keys, Busy

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• Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lying, Morality, Impulse

  "The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation".

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

  Geneen Roth

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Levels, Endeavor

  "Dianetics 55!". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1954.

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Mind Blowing, Cost

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• There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.

  Karen Chance

  Lying, Differences, Knowing

  Karen Chance (2010). “Death's Mistress: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.131, Penguin

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• The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Curves, Imagination, Brilliance

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• When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

  David Sheff

  Order, Insanity, Chaos

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Wisdom, Children

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• It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Courage, Long, Uphill Climbs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• Collective madness is called sanity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Madness, Collectives

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• Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

  Barry Hughart

  Childhood, Now And Then, Ashamed

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• You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Judgement, Risk

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.213, Penguin

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• We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

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• ...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

  Anne Mallory

  Kissing, Somewhere Else, Awful

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories.

  Teju Cole

  Mean, Self, Stories

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.243, Faber & Faber

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• It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

  Nelson DeMille

  Scary, Moments, Temporary

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• I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Heroism, Adults

  "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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• That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Insanity, Madness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.100, Penguin

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• Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

  Rachel Caine

  Beach, Adventure, Morganville Vampires

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.57, Allison & Busby

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• For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

  Sebastian Barry

  Secret, Want, Fortune

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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