"I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania."

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Source : Ayelet Waldman (2017). “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life”, p.13, Knopf

Ayelet Waldman

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“If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.”
“My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.”
“Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.”
“Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. June 12, 2005.
“Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.”
“Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.”
“The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.”
“Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.”

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