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"There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is more or less like a head cold -- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."

"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."

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

"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."

"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"

"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."

"Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined."

"Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward."

"We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them."

"I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains."
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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."
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