"What's the first image that comes to mind when you think of a mental hospital? Jack Nicholson in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' right? We need to change that perception, and places like this one are doing that."

-- Deborah Norville

#Thinking Quotes #Perception Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I put on the boots and kicked some monster ass.”
“If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.”
“Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers.”
“If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!”

Source : "The Cloud in Trousers" (1915) (translation by George Reavey)
“The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.”
“Everyone's connected but no one is connecting.”

Source : Song: Alone, Album: Intense, 2013
“Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when youâ€™re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.”
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.”

Source : "Basin and Range". Book by John McPhee, 1981; reprinted in his book "Annals of the Former World", 1998.

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