"Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating."

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Source : Neel Burton (2017). “Growing from Depression, second edition”, p.61, Acheron Press

Neel Burton

#Healthy Quotes #Modern Life Quotes #Absurd Quotes

“In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.”
“Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.”
“In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype in which a divine hero's birth is supernaturally predicted and conceived, the infant hero escapes attempts to kill him, demonstrates his precocious wisdom already as a child, receives a divine commission, defeats demons, wins acclaim, is hailed as king, then betrayed, losing popular favor, executed, often on a hilltop, and is vindicated and taken up to heaven.”

Source : Opening Statement on Mars Hill Forum at Unitarian Church, Monclair, New Jersey, www.mars-hill-forum.com. January 11, 1997.
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.”
“You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely.”
“My father always told me to wisen up, son. Cause if you hung with nine broke friends, you're bound to be the tenth one.”
“In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.”
“Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.”

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