"The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill."

-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Suicidal Quotes #Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.”
“Harvard graduates just cannot shake the idea that they know better than everyone else what's best for us and that they're capable of running a mammoth, unwieldy government program providing each one of us with the precise health insurance we need, at a good price, with no waste or fraud. Trust them, they worked it all out on paper their junior year.”
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.”
“So, what I am learning to do is (to) learn each of their personalities - to study them, to learn how their natural bent is. Is it toward intellectualism. Is it toward athletics? Toward humor? Ministry? What makes each of them tick? And can I help them blossom in their areas of strength and win their hearts in doing so? So, that's one challenge in doing that.”

Source : "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.
“Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.”
“I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.”
“If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.”

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