#sane

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#child #children #course #future #given

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. ↗

— William James

#away #belief #change #differently #dissolve

I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#albums #almost #because #believe #diva

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#going #i #insane #keeps #may

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children. ↗

— Edie Falco

#believing #body #children #come #connected

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. ↗

— Carl Jung

#him #i #man #me #sane

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. ↗

— Mark Twain

#insane #matters #opinion #our #perfect

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this? ↗

— Imran Khan

#children #civilised #did #doing #eliminate

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#difference #mad #only #over #people

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#believe #constituted #consume #frisbee #genuine