Sanity Quotes - Page 18

• I use music as a tool for my own personal sanity, one might say. After a long day or something, I can always come home and sit down and play a song, or write a song, just relax and kind of space out with my guitar.

  Michael Graziadei

  Song, Home, Writing

  Source: soaps.sheknows.com

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• Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Kings, Adventure

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• Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

  Michael Helm

  Paranoia, Circumstances, Place And Time

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

  Richard Yates

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.184, Random House

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• I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

  Colin Fletcher

  Passion, Addiction, Finals

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.15, Knopf

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• I don't understand how the Republican party is the party with the reputation for fiscal conservatism and fiscal sanity, when they're the ones who run up the debt. It was Reagan who ran up the debt and now Bush is doing it again, and in between, Clinton and Bush's father, I must say, worked so hard to get that deficit and that debt down.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Father, Party

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• If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Class, Would Be, News

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

  Camila Cabello

  Song, Expression, Sake

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Yoga, Important, Routine

  "Jennifer Aniston on the Health Issue That's Been Holding Her Back". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. August 25, 2016.

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• Seek above all for a game worth playing. Play as if your life and sanity depend on it, because they do!

  Robert S. de Ropp

  Games, Play, Depends

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• As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Discipline, Relax, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Eye, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.539, Рипол Классик

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• Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.

  Robert Scheer

  War, United States, Nuclear

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Pain, Light, Darkness

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Dinner, Way, Baboons

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• In the garden of gentle sanity,
  May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Garden, Bombarded By, Coconuts

  "Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

  Archibald Cox

  Mean, Fighting, Winning

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• Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Anna Castillo

  Bipolar, Insane, Mental Health

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• Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Play, Training

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS

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• What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only drive by occasionally and see the textures of green mountainside change under wind and sun, or the fog move soft feathers down the gulches, or the last sunset on the continent redden the sky beyond the ridge, we have our money's worth. We have been too efficient at destruction; we have left our souls too little space to breathe in. Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

  Wallace Stegner

  Moving, Sunset, Space

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

  Wallace Stegner

  Country, Character, Mean

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• The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.

  John Astin

  Enemy, Becoming, Aberration

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• Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Art, Different, Purpose

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• To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

  Stuart Wilde

  Winning, Dumb, Victory

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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