"I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently."

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Source : "My life with schizophrenia" by Elyn Saks, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2012.

Elyn Saks

#Schizophrenia Quotes #Psychiatric Quotes

“When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.”
“New security loopholes are constantly popping up because of wireless networking. The cat-and-mouse game between hackers and system administrators is still in full swing.”
“The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.”
“Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous trust...They point us toward a way of living in which everything we have we receive as a gift, and everything we have is cared for by God, and everything we have is available to others when it is right and good. This reality frames the heart of Christian simplicity. It is the means of liberation and power to do what is right and to overcome the forces of fear and avarice.”
“The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.”
“In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.”
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”

Source : Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.142, Hamilton Books
“If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.”

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