Sane Quotes - Page 21

• It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Mad, Being Me

  Robert Browning (2012). “My Last Duchess and Other Poems”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• I've always been kind of picky because I've always been interested in lots of different things. I chose to take three years off and go to school, and that helped keep me sane. Hollywood can make you crazy, if all you're thinking about is your next job.

  Jordana Brewster

  Jobs, Crazy, School

  "Jordana Brewster Talks DALLAS and Preparing to Shoot FAST & FURIOUS 6 in the UK". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 13, 2012.

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• Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

  Lauren Graham

  Ensemble, Stories, Scene

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• Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

  Harvey Penick

  Funny, Golf, People

  Harvey Penick, Bud Shrake, Edwin Shrake (1997). “The Wisdom of Harvey Penick”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Christian, Buddhist, Goal

  "3001: The Final Odyssey (Space Odyssey, Book 4)". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1997.

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• It's a poor thing to be sane!

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Poor

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• When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a feeling of "Help! What on earth can I, just one person, do about this?" Take heart. That's a sane response. It's the basis for a whole new attitude to world problems, where change at the level of the individual is more and more recognised as essential to change in huge world systems.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Attitude, Heart, Feelings

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• Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Self, Hands, Discipline

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane.

  Colman McCarthy

  Hate, Heart, Mean

  Colman McCarthy (2002). “I'd Rather Teach Peace”

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• No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Black

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.252, Ballantine Books

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• I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.

  Martha Beck

  Crazy, Believe, Home

  Martha Beck (2005). “Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith”, p.284, Broadway Books

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• My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing

  "Office affairs". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Mean, Reality, Chaos

  Rabih Alameddine (2015). “Koolaids”, p.146, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Lasts, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.187, Random House

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• You can't do all the work, so surround yourself with people you trust; if this is your show then everything is ultimately your call, but the more faith you have in people who have proven to be capable, the more sane you get to be.

  Kevin Biegel

  People, Surround Yourself, Shows

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Dad, Laughing, Parent

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.25, Crown Archetype

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• Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Forever, Sun

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.422, Penguin

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• We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Positivity, Light

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Vincent van Gogh was sane when he painted that piece of art, because when you you feel the mania and depression, you have all the heaven and hell your heart has ever experienced that you can tap into, to be able to create something that can last several lifetimes.

  Paul Dalio

  Art, Heaven, Pieces

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that you experienced something beautiful. I understand that you saw the stars pulsing spirals of fire across the sky like Van Gogh did when he was looking outside the sanitarium window. But you know what? He didn't paint ['Starry Night'] when he was manic. He painted it when he was sane because he didn't need the mania to have the magic."

  Paul Dalio

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, People, Religion

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• Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Grief, Men

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• Only my insanity keeps me sane in today's world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insanity, World, Today

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 17, 2011

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• Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

  W. H. Auden

  Mad, Acting, Actors

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• Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

  Mark Twain

  Government, Knowing, Ass

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

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