#sanity

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#feeling #gratitude #life #sanity #life

The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#insane #insanity #philosophy-of-life #sane #sanity

Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possède une vertu, alors qu'on ne la possède pas. Certes, une pareille illusion est plus dangereuse que l'illusion contraire qui consiste à croire que l'on souffre d'un défaut, d'un vice. Deuxième Considération intempestive, ch. 6 ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#vice #virtue #imagination

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long. ↗

— Libba Bray

#humor #insanity #humor

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#insanity #religion #war #humor

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#insanity #humor

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#humor #psychotherapy #sanity #humor

One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas. The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying. ("New York Blues") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#insanity #mental-illness #death

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#honey #i #music #organized #rock

Nobody's sane above the law. ↗

— Toba Beta

#law #life #normal #life