"Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened."

-- Melvyn Bragg

#Leaving Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Mental Illness Quotes

“Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.”
“A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.”

Source : "Following Words Through a Labyrinth" by David Orr, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 2011.
“Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers”
“Every Muslim, from the moment they realize the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews and hates Christians. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans.”
“In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me is that if we think about these workers, these are the people with the least access to good food. Yet they're often suffering from the highest rates of obesity and diet-related illnesses.”
“An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.”

Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford
“Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.”
“Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.”

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