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"114 Sanity Quotes

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Around Coffin Cynic Flowers
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Shoulder Drop Atlas World
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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Imagination True Magic Carpet
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Convenient Forgotten Him Nobody
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“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or quarreler?”

Remember Boy Rebel Fail
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If I see something dirty or untidy, I have to clean it up.

See Dirty Untidy Clean
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If what you are thinking doesn’t make you feel good, change that thought. Bad cannot bother you unless you are available.

Thinking Make Feel Good
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At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. Do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.

Worst Quickest Move Contribution
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Make peace with the past.
Make Peace Past
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The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.

Amount Conversations Ideas Insane
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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

Family Insanity Practically Runs
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“When you can bear your own emptiness, you are free.”

When Bear Emptiness Free
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“Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.”
Actually Being Simplest Difficult
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rrender, let silence have you. Surrender to the source, surrender to awareness, this is the only place of protection. Surrender your heart and you will know all.”

Surrender Silence Source Awareness
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“Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognize your inner state of completeness and harmony.”

Bless Existence Entire Immediately
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“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”

Prefer Make Mistakes Kindness
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Trying Chain Parenting Survived
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Clothed Every Every Heart Everyone
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My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

People Agreement Satisfies Please
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I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Losing Taste Everything Finding
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I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

Sad Person Happy Too
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There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Blow Liberty Problem Race
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

After Been Caught Consequences
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Am I Am Now Older
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Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator

Remember Neighbor Friend Reflection
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Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

Her Make Mitchell Own
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Need Right Biggest Bar
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“I can’t endorse bad behaviour. I’ll keep my money, time and sanity.”

Endorse Behaviour Money Time
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I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.
Everything Fine Heads High
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Ability Become Combinations Grasp
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Absurd Here Huge IThink
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Awful Both Evil Exceptional
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Admit Always Crazy Fine
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It's insane but it's a great insane.

Great Insane
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Honesty has always worked for me.

Always Honesty Me Worked
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

American Best Every Form
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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Fun Fundamentalists Mental Out
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I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

Actually Away Doing Force
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You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

Anything Assured Concerning Guidance
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We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
Experience Extent Focus Forgive
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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Built Contract Did Government
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Coat Dry Get Martini
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Function Incomprehensible Pick Pockets
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Course Crazy Mean Wrong
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Author Difficult First Front
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If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to ‘demand’ its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Ability Tell right Think Every sane
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The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

About Bars Car Few
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Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

Afraid Am Course High
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Wished Assert Reasoned Independent feeling
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Absence Alternatives Mind
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