Quotes
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. -Samuel Adams
Illness of the mind is real illness....As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. -Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not
Speak
Whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it
Break.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear! -Dante The Divine Comedy
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller deaf and blind writer
"The lack of meaning in life is a soul sickness whose full extent and full import our age has not as yet begun to comprehend." -Carl Jung
"Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything. Through the creation of meaning...a new cosmos arises." -Carl Jung
"Because psychic affliction often involves a withdrawal from the objects of the world, a dissatisfaction with ordinary things, writing helps writers pay attention to objects outside of their own suffering." -Judith Harris Signifying Pain
"It's memory added to imagination, subtracted by false starts, and multiplied by a fraction of the tons of hard work you've put into the mess." -Amy Tan The Opposite of Fate