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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c9dea6c | If everyone has the capacity for some measure of depression under some circumstances, everyone also has the capacity to fight depression to some degree under some circumstances. Often, the fight takes the form of seeking out the treatments that will be most effective in the battle. It involves finding help while you are still strong enough to do so. It involves making the most of the life you have between your most severe episodes. Some hor.. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| af98395 | In depression, the meaninglessness of every enterprise and every emotion, the meaninglessness of life itself, becomes self-evident. The only feeling left in this loveless state is insignificance. Life | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 06897f0 | If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 1e0340c | Life itself seemed so alarmingly exigent, to require so much of the self. It was too difficult to remember and think and express and understand - all things I needed to be able to do to talk. To keep my face animated at the same time was insult added to injury. It was like trying to cook and roller-skate and sing and type all at once. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 8c936a6 | The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and my life, as I write this, is vital. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 8e95838 | That is, perhaps, the greatest revelation I have had: not that depression is compelling but that the people who suffer from it may become compelling because of it. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 1736062 | one loves and is loved in great pain, and one is alive in the experience of it. It is the walking-death quality of depression that I have tried to eliminate from my life; | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 5d1885d | I'll tell them all the good things and some difficulties. The parents may never accept what happened to them and yet accept their child. They're two separate things, the parental loss, and the actual person they will almost always end up loving. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| e0558c3 | This thought runs like a bright golden thread through the dark tapestry of our sorrow. We learn so much from our children--in patience, in humility, in gratitude for other blessings we had accepted before as a matter of course; so much in tolerance; so much in faith--believing and trusting where we cannot see; so much in compassion for our fellow man; and yes, even so much in wisdom about the eternal values in life. | andrew solomon | ||
| e8ecb6c | when describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 1f771cc | For some parents of children with horizontal identities, acceptance reaches its apogee when parents conclude that while they supposed they were pinioned by a great and catastrophic loss of hope, they were in fact falling in love with someone they didn't yet know enough to want. | Andrew Solomon | ||
| 250a8e9 | As I was saying, King Solomon, my daughter brings with her the most powerful weapon on earth--love. | love weapon | Mesu Andrews | |
| 1408568 | But she insists the family hadn't a choice. Not true. We always have choices. Isn't that what Dante teaches us? I really have become quite the Dante scholar: "There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness." | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 8f69704 | It's a terrible era when idiots are allowed to govern the blind, | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 3a0aff5 | My biggest regret is being naive enough in thinking that what happened is a big enough reason to miss out on each other's live. | Frank Warren | ||
| 60719c6 | We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward. | dragon james-mallory location-7374 mercedes-lackey page-324 the-phoenix-transformed time | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 7a8da52 | Like I said, I know bullies. Deflect, deflect, make them think they got their way even when they didn't, but never actually give in to them. Become innocuous, not worth tormenting or thinking about. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 23e11cd | Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. "Riding astride would have been easier," he said. "You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position." "Oh, I know," she replied with a grimace. "Every muscle told me about it this morning, and I actually DID have a hot soak before I went to bed." Sebastian looked blankly at the two of them for a moment, then blinked and looked relieved. "Oh, you're.. | bella eric five-hundred-kingdoms humor mercedes-lackey sebastian | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 06e5653 | No one runs from anything quite like they run from change.: | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 0b7457c | Make someone a devout, fanatical anything, and his brain turns to mulch. | religion | Mercedes Lackey | |
| 807cf63 | Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 046175b | Doctor Ambrosius smiled slightly. "You and all the others here, are-or rather, one day be-magicians." Spirit broke into a disbelieving laugh. "Right," she said, starting to stand up. Mean, she could deal with; crazy was something else. "Thank you, Professor Dumbledore. I hope the train hasn't left yet, because-" | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| ceced0f | Learn the wisdom of the Hound. Always rest, eat, and play when you can, because the universe conspires to keep you from doing any of these things nearly as often as you would like. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| beb56a1 | Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies. | woman-s-strength | Mercedes Lackey | |
| d3150b6 | What is courage?" its chorus asked--and the song answered, "It is to give when hope is gone, when there is no chance that men may call you a hero, when you have tried and failed and rise to try again." It asked the same of friendship, answering that "the friend stands beside you when you are right and all others despise you for it." | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| ffb6d79 | But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 0f6580e | And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw. | Mercedes Lackey | ||
| 75d488d | I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger | writing writing-books | Jen Campbell | |
| ed4808a | The Garden Under Snow " Now the garden is under snow a blank page our footprints write on clare who was never mine but always belonged to herself Sleeping Beauty a crystalline blanket this is her spring this is her sleeping/awakening she is waiting everything is waiting the improbable shapes of roots my baby her face a garden, waiting." | poem the-time-traveler-s-wife | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| d65d73c | The compelling thing about making art--or making anything, I suppose--is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, .. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| defaaba | Part of me wants to turn him into hamburger and part of me doesn't want to beat up somebody who's taped to a tree. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c9601fd | dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say until it is as meaningless as air. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 9ee78e6 | I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story. | stories storytelling writing | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| 2ab17f4 | Viz alatt elek. Minden lassu es tavoli. Tudom, hogy odafenn van egy vilag, egy napsutotte, gyors vilag, ahol az ido ugy pereg, ahogyan homokoraban a szaraz homok, de itt lenn, ahol en vagyok, levego es hang es ido es erzes mind suru es vastag. (Az idoutazo felesege) | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| a4b44f1 | She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| aa30d83 | It wasn't quite raining, but it wasn't exactly not raining either. She heard the driver squelching along the path behind her. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| c2fcbc9 | Elspeth stood in the sun, letting it pour through her, watching the Kitten sleep. I want you. Elspeth felt depressed. She had never thought of herself as someone who would kill a beautiful white kitten while it napped. But apparently she was that sort of person. Don't you worry, Kitten. I'll put you right back. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 017e588 | But I don't want to just believe it, I want it to be true. | believe claire-abshire god st-thomas-aquinas | Audrey Niffenegger | |
| f4d024f | The heart asks pleasure first; and then excuse from pain. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| 2393cdd | The pain has receded but what's left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain. | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| ae23b74 | When shame is met with compassion and not received as confirmation of our guilt, we can begin to see how slant a lens it has had us looking through. That awareness lets us step back far enough to see that if we can let it go, we will see ourselves as clean where we once thought we were dirty. We will remember our innocence. We will see how our shame supported a system in which the perpetrators were protected and we bore the brunt of their o.. | abuser abusers burdens-of-the-past child-rape child-sexual-abuse false-guilt freedom guilt healing healing-from-abuse healing-insights imperfect incest innocence innocence-lost offense peptrator perfectionism perfectly-imperfect perpetrators recovery recovery-from-abuse sexual-abuse shame survivors | Maureen Brady | |
| df5a60c | The root of all fears. Not being accepted by those we care about. Being rejected and isolated. It's a primal fear. As a species, we are meant to be part of a group. A community. We mistrust loners because we don't understand them. With the exception of our romanticizing the loner in movies and novels, of course. | Susan Mallery | ||
| 86fcfdb | I think that's everything," she said, rising to her feet. "Thank you, Mr. MacIntyre." He shook his head. "Lucas. Or the deal is off." She pressed her lips together. "All right. Lucas. And I must tell you, I don't particularly care for you shortening my name. Emily is perfectly fine." "I know, Em. I'll keep that in mind." | Susan Mallery | ||
| 44512e8 | Well?" Marsha asked when Charity had left. A single word with a thousand meanings, Josh thought grimly. What was it about women and language? They could make a man squirm without putting much effort into the task. A skill he both admired and feared." | Susan Mallery |