"It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating."

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Source : "'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

Maya Forbes

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“A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”
“Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”
“If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn sheâ€™s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?”

Source : Diane Chamberlain (2011). “The Midwife's Confession”, p.193, MIRA
“I wake up in the morning and I feel like Iâ€™m missing something. I know that thereâ€™s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.”
“Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.”
“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.”
“Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.”
“My curiosity, alas, is not the kind that can be satisfied by objective knowledge. Plato said that opinion is worthless and that only knowledge counts, which is a neat formulation. But melancholy [men] from the northern mists understand that opinion is all there is. The great questions transcend fact, and discourse is a process of personality. Knowledge cannot respond to knowledge. And wisdom? Is it not opinion refined, opinion killed and resuscitated upward? Maybe Plato would have agreed with this.”

Source : "Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays".

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