Quote library - listing of quotes

Favorite quotes - a simple listing of quotes related to mental health topics and concerns

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[20] The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ Carl Jung

[19] The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~ Alan Kay

[18] To learn and to love, that is what we are here for; any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time. ~ Anne Rice

[17] The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns. ~ Laurence Kubie

[16] To attain knowledge, add things everyday; to obtain wisdom, remove things everyday. ~ Lao Tzu

[15] Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment. ~ Laurence Kubie

[14] All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ~ Winston Churchill

[13] Never never never quit. ~ Winston Churchill

[12] Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent cannot; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan,'Press On', has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ~ Calvin Coolidge

[11] I think and think, for months, for years; ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ~ Albert Einstein

[10] Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~ Dale Carnegie

[9] I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ~ Joan Didion

[8] The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ Carl Jung

[7] Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ~ Goethe

[6] I love being a novelist. It's the writing I can't stand. ~ (Source lost - some 19th century novelist, I think)

[5] I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ~ attributed to Dilbert (comic strip by Scott Adams)

[4] It's not too late at all. You just do not yet know what you are capable of. ~ attributed to Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

[3] You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ~ Neil Gaiman

[2] The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ~ William James

[1] No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine. ~ Hitopadesa