#sanity

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#madness #may #much #sanity #see

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is art itself). And your worrying about this ought not to be a tortured thing - God knows there's enough torture growing wild in everybody's life so that nobody in his right mind needs to cultivate it - but a serene thing. Don't, in other words, jazz yourself up into a nervous wreck. Be quiet, be as sane as you can, and let the work come out of you. If it's to come, it will; if it's not, no amount of self-induced frenzy is going to hep it along. One final piece of solemn, teacherly advice, and I do mean this: Try to like yourself a little better. ↗

— Blake Bailey

#inspiration #sanity #art

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #clever #cognition #cognitive #cognitive-psychology

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#insanity #war #humor

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#insanity #enemy

There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had him. If I had someone like him, it would prove that I'm stable, and then I wouldn't have to do the work to get there. I am constantly looking for ways to cede control of my worries to someone, anyone. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love #sanity #love

Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! ↗

— Dale Wasserman

#madness #sanity #inspirational

When you aim high and you want to create a difference, all you need is a SPARK from your heart. ↗

— Vishal Bhojwani

#cool #insanity #inspirational #inspirational

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#insanity #intellectual #self-help #freedom

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#awful #face #god #heroes #humanity