"Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness."

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Source : "A tale of mental illness — from the inside". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

Elyn Saks

#Powerful Quotes #Mind Quotes #Defense Quotes

“How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1791). “Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c”, p.145, Birmingham
“There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.”
“Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!”
“Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.”
“Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.”
“It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.”
“Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.”
“My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said”

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