Sanity Quotes - Page 6

• It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Courage, Long, Uphill Climbs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

  David Sheff

  Order, Insanity, Chaos

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

  Geneen Roth

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Collective madness is called sanity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Madness, Collectives

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• Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

  Barry Hughart

  Childhood, Now And Then, Ashamed

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• You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Judgement, Risk

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.213, Penguin

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• The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Curves, Imagination, Brilliance

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• In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

  Jemima Khan

  Hard Work, Keys, Busy

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• His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

  Terry Pratchett

  Anchors, Common Sense, Flying

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Thud!: (Discworld Novel 34)”, p.405, Random House

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• That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Doe, Share

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Wisdom, Children

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• We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

  Peter Thiel

  Our World, Retail, Might

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 3, 2012.

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• The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Mind Blowing, Cost

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• I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bullying, Strong, War

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “The Rough Riders: An Autobiography”, p.461, Library of America

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• The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Levels, Endeavor

  "Dianetics 55!". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1954.

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• Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Lying, Morality, Impulse

  "The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation".

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• There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.

  Karen Chance

  Lying, Differences, Knowing

  Karen Chance (2010). “Death's Mistress: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.131, Penguin

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• I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

  Stephen King

  Writing, School, People

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

  Dwight Longenecker

  Dark, Mad, Insanity

  Dwight Longenecker (2014). “The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

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• Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

  Jill Hennessy

  Running, Yoga, Findings

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• I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Wise, Smart, Yoga

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Information, Flow, Signals

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.66, Ronin Publishing

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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Simple, Achievement, Insane

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• World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

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