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Mental States When you want to, you can. French proverb If there is one thing that psychology has taught us, it's that people aren't guided by wisdom and reason, but rather by emotion. Loevier Positive is being mistaken at the top of one's void. Ambrose Bierce I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Don't bother to agree with me, I've already changed my mind. If your mind is empty, it's always ready for anything. Shunryu Suzuki Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Samuel Taylor Coleridge I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. Cullen Hightower If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allen Poe Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun Apathy will get us nowhere. But who cares? Indecision is the key to flexibility. All the wonders you seek are within yourself. Sir Thomas Browne It IS as bad as you think, and they ARE out to get you. And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound. Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't tell people your problems; 80 percent don't care and the other 20 percent are glad you have them. Tommy Lasorda Everyone thinks of changing humanity, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. John Keats I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain The brave only knows how to forgive. Sterne Is everybody in? The Ceremony is about to begin. Wake up! You can't remember where it was. Has this dream stopped? Jim Morrison Out of my mind ... back in five minutes. It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable, and dull. Joseph Conrad Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. J. R. Lowell The diminutive chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Goethe The only Zen you find on mountaintops is the Zen you bring up there. Robert Persig Start every day with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three afterward. George Hebert If you can dream ... and not make dreams your masters. Rudyard Kipling One is strong who conquers others; one who conquers himself is mighty. Lao Tzu Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have. Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. Goethe Once I had a dream that worried me, Like a drunken guillotine lingering just above my head. Cat Stevens Me stubborn? There is no way you can make me admit that! I think, therefore I am. Rene Descartes Give me ambiguity or give me something else. I find nothing more depressing than optimism. Paul Fussell How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smile awakes you when you rise. Thomas Dekker For everything that you have lost, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something. Ralph W. Emerson Do nothing, and enjoy a trouble-free existence. Conceit is incompatible with understanding. Tolstoy Ambition is so powerful a passion that however high we reach, we are never satisfied. Machiavelli To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you have. Ken S. Keyes, Jr. Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles. Arnold H. Glasgow I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. Woody Allen Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek Myths to their private parts. Nabokov Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. Paranoids are people too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. For imagination to exist, man must exist. It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on. William Burroughs If you want something to get big, you've got to think big. Peter C. Siegel You must do the thing you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt Get the fuck off my life. Huan Dong The march of the human mind is slow. Edmund Burke Don't look back, they might be gaining on you. Ever stop to think and forget to start again? Sanity is a cozy lie. Susan Sontag Don't be so open-minded your brains fall out. To solve your problems, close your eyes until they go away. Roses are red, violets are blue, I am a schitzo and so am I. There's no problem so big that you can't run away from it - at least for a little while. Compulsive, neurotic, anti-social and paranoid; but basically happier than hell. Copyright İRonald W. Sitton, 2006. Revised 022606 - http://southerner.net/sitron/wis/wment.html |