"Everything that gets born dies."

--

Morrie Schwartz

“The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.”
“I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.”
“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”
“But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.”
“To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell!”
“We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.”
“I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.”

Source : "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.
“Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life. Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honest to choose the right.”

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