Sanity Quotes - Page 9

• Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Tired

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.47, Random House

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• Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "How to give birth the Scientology way" by Carlene Bailey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2006.

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• Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

  Jill Hennessy

  Running, Yoga, Findings

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• I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

  Bel Kaufman

  Morning, Sleep, Writing

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

  Studs Terkel

  Peace

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

  Philip Larkin

  Affair, Poetry Is, Seeing

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.

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• It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

  P. D. James

  Stupid, Fighting, Together

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.126, Vintage

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• In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

  Trent Reznor

  Compassion, Two, Greed

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

  Frank Ocean

  Artist, Men, Killers

  "Frank Ocean says he'll 'choose sanity,' won't press charges in Chris Brown fight" By Denise Quan, Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2013.

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• Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/

  Daniel Goleman

  Confusing, Unruly, Needed

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• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Health, Independence

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.

  Sudhir Kakar

  War, Drinking, Humility

  Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

  Amber Benson

  Regret, Law, Trying

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• Most of our days are filled with routine duties required for life to continue with any sort of sanity. But if we take the time look closely, we might discover that God is using these normal activities to prepare us for future tasks, each duty pointing to His blessing in our lives.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Blessing, Routine, Looks

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• Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Neurosis, Permanent, Temporary

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• We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Nature, Mean

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.333, Modern Library

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• At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Form

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

  Megan Gallagher

  Differences, Insanity, Bigs

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• It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, People, Impossible

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• World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

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• Don't be afraid to tread new ground, but do a sanity test.

  Sabeer Bhatia

  Tests, Risk-taking

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• There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspiring, Country, Flags

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.127, Counterpoint

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• What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Years, Mystical Experiences, Today

  Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library

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