"The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health."

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Source : "U.S. surgeon-general focuses on suicide, mental health". www.cnn.com. April 17, 1998.

David Satcher

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I almost feel like itâ€™s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.”
“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

Source : John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper
“- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.”
“In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.”
“You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.”
“There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.”
“Some days success just means not giving up.”

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