"There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst wonâ€™t happen."

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Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

Kay Redfield Jamison

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“I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.”
“A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.”
“Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.”
“I didnâ€™t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didnâ€™t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again Iâ€™ll take it out of your hide, and I didnâ€™t say, Oh, honey, wouldnâ€™t you like to? And he didnâ€™t say Grow up, Ms. Lane, I donâ€™t take little girls to my bed, and I didnâ€™t say I wouldnâ€™t go there if it was the only safe place from the Lord Master in all of Dublin.”
“I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.”

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“It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.”
“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”

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