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Madness & Sanity

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
Ray Bradbury

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by
and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Lang

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality
Jules de Gaultier

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Sanity
"Eagles never display wonder,
or say "'Tis marvel of the age."
For in nature we the children
Only hold the sane as strange."
Kahlil Gibran

"Oh, god, if I'm anything by clinical name,
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse.
I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"
by J. D. Salinger

"Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is
behind the veil of 'sanity'. The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those
secrets, and madness is the only means."
Kahlil Gibran

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for
mentally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen

Freedom

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
M. Gandhi

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Thomas Jefferson

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:
the last of the human freedoms -
to choose one's own way."
Viktor Frankl

Win Or lose !

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Robert F. Kennedy

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
Soren Kierkegaard

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you can accept losing, you can't win."
Vince Lombardi

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it,
for that determines our success or failure.
Norman Vincent Peale

"Aim for the highest."
Andrew Carnegie

What is defeat? Nothing but education,
nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips

The only sin is mediocrity.
Martha Graham

Mistakes are their own instructors.
Horace

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream,
not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~Blake

Life & Death

Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism
Anonymous

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me:
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree.
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember
And if thou wilt, forget.
Christina Rossetti "Song"

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant
blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!"
Emiliano Zapata

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no security in life, only opportunity.
Douglas Mac Arthur

Strength and courage

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do"
Eleanor Roosevelt

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence
but it comes from within.
It is there all the time."
Anna Freud

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi

"I've found out why people laugh.
They laugh because it hurts so much . . .
because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting."
Robert A. Heinlein
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
William Shakespeare

Let us be of good cheer,
remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never happen.
James Russell Lowell

The future is on more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
The Serenity Prayer

"Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself."
Harvey Fierstein

Hope

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche -

Hope deceives more men than cunning can.
Marquis Vauvenargues -

Misc

You have to have a darkness...
for the dawn to come.
Harrison Ford

"Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Paul Tournier

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be."
Fannie Brice

Who has never tasted bitter does not know what is sweet.
German Proverb

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the  stars.
Oscar Wilde

There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
Heinrich Heine

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before,
but in saying exactly what you think yourself."
Katherine Anne Porter

"It is better to be hated for what one is, then to be loved for what one is not."
Andre Gide

"Respect yourself most of all."
Pythagoras

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams

"It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line."
Ashleigh Brilliant

"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham

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