"It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again."

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Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

Kay Redfield Jamison

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Damage Quotes

“There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.”
“I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.”

Source : "Mexico's 'mother of all oil and gas rushes' is about to get ugly" by Wolf Richter, www.businessinsider.com. September 10, 2015.
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
“Every time you are looking for love, and you're making yourself available for love, it may not come in the package that you had dreamed of. It might come in something completely different. You might've thought, "I'm going to be with a tall, dark, and handsome." or "I'm supposed to be with a model woman who looks like she can walk on the runways." But, it might be just a little curvy girl from Oakland!”
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
“It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.”
“You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!”
“Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.”

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