We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
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Jodi Picoult
Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.
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Jodi Picoult
I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the...
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Dave Barry
Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once .. oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really." Hermes ignored them. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>"One night, when this boy's mother wasn't watching, he sneaked out of their cave and stole some cattle that belonged to Apollo.""Did...
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Rick Riordan
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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More Quotes By R. D. Laing
What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.
