#polar

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it. ↗

— Alva Noto

#am #between #create #define #i

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress. ↗

— Mike Ross

#congress #made #moderate #polarized #redistricting

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#any #bear #by the time #deal #draws

Oh yeah. Hey, dont pay any attention to what my grandma says." "Why not?" "Well, she can be very ctitical." "Oh thats okay I take criticism very well." "No you dont." "Whats that supposed to mean??!!" "I just said you dont take criticism very well!" "Why dont you just kick me in the face!!!" "Im sorry. I take it back." and like that, Kats anger is gone. "Mmmkkaayyyy." she sang, all happy and carefree again. ↗

— Kat Robby

#kat #robby #victorious #anger

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of. They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#courage #depression #drinking #illness #manic-depression

The greatest communication barrier known to man is the lack of the common core of experience "When’s the last time you had a Manic Episode Doctor"? ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#communication

I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12. ↗

— Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

#courageous #exploration #polar #sacrifice #courage

I'm the designated sane person. ↗

— Bonnie Rice

#humor #sane #design

The big mistake of modern media has been this notion of balance for balance's sake. That the left is just as violent and cruel as the right, that unions are just powerful as corporations, that reverse racism is just as damaging as racism.... Governments led by liberal democrats passed laws which changed the air I breathe for the better. Okay I'm for them and not for the party that is as we speak plotting to abolish the E.P.A. And I don't need to pretend that both sides have a point here, and I don't care what left or right commentators say about it. I only care what climate scientists say about it. Two opposing sides don't necessarily have two compelling arguments. Martin Luther King speaks on that wall in the capital and he didn't say "Remember folks, those southern sheriffs with the fire hoses and the German shepherds, they have a point too." No, he said, "I had a dream and they had a nightmare." This isn't Team Edward & Team Jacob. Liberals like the ones on that field must stand up and be counted and not pretend that we're as mean or greedy or shortsighted or plain batched as they are. And if that is too polarizing for you and you still want to reach across the aisle and hold hands and sing with someone on the right ... Try Church. ↗

— Bill Maher

#change

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're "not at all like yourself but will be soon," but you know you won't. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#depression #illness #experience