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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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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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Personal Development

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."
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"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
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"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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Personal Development

"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."
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Personal Development

"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."
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"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."
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"Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me."
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"When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness."
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"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
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"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth

"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15)."
Joy

"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Truth

"Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good."
Society

"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."
Courage

"God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
Morality

"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
Behavior
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