"Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither."

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Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

Kay Redfield Jamison

#Crazy Quotes #Real Quotes #Suicidal Quotes

“It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.”
“Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.”

Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.150, The New Press
“He's complicated and complex, a labyrinth I want to lose myself in. He's my fighter, and I really want to fight to be with him.”
“We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.
“Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.”
“Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.”
“God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing”
“Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.”

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