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"Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days."

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."

"It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world."

"Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum."

"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."
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"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

"But here is the thing about the stars and all of it's faults: We don't understand everything about it, but we still love it's beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars."

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

"Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others."

"The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it."

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."
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