"Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae."

-- Camille Paglia

#Self Quotes #Mental Health Quotes #Mental Illness Quotes

“I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.”
“My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.”
“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
“I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...”
“The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.”
“The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.”

Source : John Caples (1932). “Tested Advertising Methods: How to Profit by Removing Guesswork”
“I still get the feeling I got when I started, that's why I'm still doing it after all these years, I still get that full adrenalin rush before I compete.”

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