"If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it."

-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#Creativity Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.”
“I will remember all the days at the Olympics.”
“Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.”
“We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.”
“Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings.”
“Ok, this is the most unfun threesome I have ever been a part of. Nobody's having sex and someone is yelling. I'm out of here.”
“Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”
“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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