"The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about."

-- Andy Behrman

#Broken Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Six Quotes

“Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?”
“I think whenever Ahmadinejad opens his mouth in forums, especially in front of the U.N. General Assembly, those that are listening, especially Western officials, European, American, even Chinese and Russian officials, I think, after listening to Ahmadinejad, they have even less confidence that there exists a mature political leadership in Iran which is amenable to some type of a diplomatic compromise.”
“Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.”

Source : "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 5), 1975.
“In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.”
“In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. â€œExplainingâ€ them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.”
“The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.”
“I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.”
“For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?”

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