"The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous."

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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

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“To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”
“All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.”
“You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.”

Source : "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.
“...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”
“Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.”
“People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'”

Source : Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press
“Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order”

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