#mental

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mind #mystery #rebellion #sherlock-holmes #stagnation

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mania #manic #mental-illness #psychology #present

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time. ↗

— Gary Malone

#creationism #religion #religious-fundamentalism #science #stupidity

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#environment #environmental-protection #materialism #possessions #environment

Judgmental heart has lack of introspection. ↗

— Toba Beta

#judgmental #measurement #sign #subjectivity #introspection

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash. ↗

— Bill Maher

#environmental-disaster #environmentalism #humour #renewable-energy #environmentalism

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends. ↗

— Paul Begala

#catholic #friends #fundamentalist #going #i

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#because #charged #country #faith #highly

The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we fear that emotion will never come our way again. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#sentimental #introspection

It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#god #judge #judgement #judgmental-people #judgement