"Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses."

-- Elyn Saks

#People Quotes #Depth Quotes #Diagnosis Quotes

“The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.”
“I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.”

Source : CBS TV, 1976.
“Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.”
“Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.”
“Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.”

Source : The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 26, 2005.
“God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.”
“It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.”
“....A simple I love you means more than money....”

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