#sanity

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#am #clinical #definition #different #expect

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#children #clothes #dead #despair #desperate

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#back #because #being #direction #dramatic

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. ↗

— Stephen King

#anybody #day #distrust #enough #get

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#better #chosen #crazy #i #insanity

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#aggressive #around #grew #guys #i

I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga. ↗

— Courtney Thorne Smith

#friends #hanging #i #life #line

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#between #dividing #drawn #i #illness

Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii. ↗

— Gellu Naum

#escape-from-reality #heroism #insanity #psychosis #dreams

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#i #peace #same #sanity #thing