Betty Fussell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.
-- Betty Fussell

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I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.
You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Betty Fussell famous quotes

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