„I have often found that mental patients who are given love, creativity, and community find the peace that they are reaching out for.“

„I do want to be careful not to glamorise mental illness when it comes to creativity because more often than not it actually tends to inhibit creativity…“

—  Esmé Weijun Wang American writer

On avoiding perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness in “Esmé Weijun Wang: ‘I don’t want to glamorise mental illness… it inhibits creativity’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/esme-weijun-wang-interview-the-collected-schizophrenias in The Guardian (2019 Jun29)

„If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.“

—  Kristin Hannah, buch The Nightingale

Quelle: The Nightingale

„I have found out that the real essentials of greatness in men are not written in books, nor can they be found in the schools, They are written into the inner consciousness of everyone who intensely searches for perfection in creative achievement and are understandable to such men only.“

—  Walter Russell American philosopher 1871 - 1963

The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe

„And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice.“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

„I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists. I don't find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.“

—  Richard Wurmbrand Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent 1909 - 2001

Quelle: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 75.

„Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.“

—  Leo Buscaglia Motivational speaker, writer 1924 - 1998

„Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.“

—  Edmund Cooper, buch Five to Twelve

Five to Twelve (1968)

„Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life.“

—  Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1931

Nobel Address (1991)
Kontext: Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life. I saw in that definition the people's profound understanding of peace as harmony, concord, mutual help, and cooperation.
This understanding is embodied in the canons of world religions and in the works of philosophers from antiquity to our time.

„In love we find out who we want to be, in war we find out who we are.“

—  Kristin Hannah, buch The Nightingale

Quelle: The Nightingale

„Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach love do not have love“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Quelle: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

„Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.“

—  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross American psychiatrist 1926 - 2004

On Death and Dying (1969)

„People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.“

—  Gillian Flynn, buch Gone Girl – Das perfekte Opfer

Quelle: Gone Girl

„Are there people who simply can't change their diet? There certainly are. Now, you have to ask, ‘Are they given all the information? Are they given all the motivation? Do they have the opportunity and the environment to support this?’ Most of the time, when I have a patient who can't change their diet, it's because of their surroundings. Environment is huge. Culture is huge.“

—  Kim A. Williams American cardiologist 1955

Interview in the book What the Health https://books.google.it/books?id=FIY8DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT0 by Eunice Wong (Xlibris, 2017).

„The problem is, some of us have either convinced ourselves that we are not creative, or are yet to find our way. Confidence in our own creativity can wane. Which is bad. Confidence is crucial. In my experience artists, like a lot of us, fear being “found out.”“

—  Will Gompertz British journalist 1965

But somehow they manage to summon up enough self-belief to overcome the self-doubt, which enables them to back their creativity. The Beatles were just a bunch of young lads with time on their hands who found the confidence to persuade themselves and then the world that they were musicians.
Think Like an Artist (2015)

„Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.“

—  Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Quelle: Gilead

„I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.“

—  Judy Collins American singer and songwriter 1939

„I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.“

—  Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972

Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=r03gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+found+the+best+way+to+give+advice+to+your+children+is+to+find+out+what+they+want+and+then+advise+them+to+do+it%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television ( 27 May 1955 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/may-27-1955-1040725/)

„The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know: … the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.“

—  Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965

Quelle: Between Man and Man (1965), p. 178

„I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.“

—  Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011

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2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)