Patricia Deegan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.
-- Patricia Deegan

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The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.
-- Patricia Deegan

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We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.
-- Patricia Deegan

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People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.
-- Patricia Deegan

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I believe it is a spirit of hope that gathers us here together today.
-- Patricia Deegan

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The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.
-- Patricia Deegan

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We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.
-- Patricia Deegan

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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six hundred years, would not only free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune, but would lead to a recovery which today seems scarcely conceivable.
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, thereâ€™s something stronger â€“ something better, pushing right back.
No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.
This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

Patricia Deegan famous quotes

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