"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on Insanity
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Einstein, Albert on Simplicity
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"To find yourself, think for yourself."

Socrates on Thoughts and Thinking
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Hope
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on Hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on Hope
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on Hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on Hope
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

Proverb, French on Hope
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Lennon, John on Madness
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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

LeGuin, Ursula K. on Sanity
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"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

Emmons, Nathaniel on Insanity
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"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."

Freud, Sigmund on Insanity
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on Insanity
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"I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane."

Jennings, Waylon on Insanity
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on Insanity
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"Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children."

Levenson, Samuel on Insanity
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Insanity
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on Insanity
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"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Twain, Mark on Insanity
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"The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion."

Baldwin, Stanley on Ideals and Idealism
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."

Coolidge, Calvin on Ideals and Idealism
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"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

Frank, Anne on Ideals and Idealism
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"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Kurosawa, Akiro on Sanity
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"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Sanity
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"... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

Anderson, Greg on Enjoyment
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"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."

Bradbury, Ray on Enjoyment
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"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on Enjoyment
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"If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it."

Rosten, Leo on Enjoyment
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"He enjoys much who is thankful for little."

Secker, Thomas on Enjoyment
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"Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think."

Socrates on Enjoyment
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"No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily."

Breton, Andre on Enlightenment
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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is."

Dyer, Wayne on Enlightenment
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"I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal."

Hammarskjold, Dag on Enlightenment
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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

Thoreau, Henry David on Enlightenment
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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."

Balzac, Honore De on Self-acceptance
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"It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn't matter what we do."

Heavenrich, Charly on Self-acceptance
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"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

Walters, J. Donald on Self-acceptance
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"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."

Sandburg, Carl on Ideals and Idealism
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"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."

Schurz, Carl on Ideals and Idealism
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