"Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were."

-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#People Quotes #Mental Health Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.”
“What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.”
“I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.”
“There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.”
“We all need time to enjoy being alive without an agenda of getting something done.”
“Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.”
“To be a seer is to walk softly on the earth and dream.”
“Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.”

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