Brian Cham

“Two or three years after the 1947 Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan to exchange their lunatics in the same manner as they had exchanged their criminals. The Muslim lunatics in India were to be sent over to Pakistan and the Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistan asylums were to be handed over to India. It was difficult to say whether the proposal made any sense or not.”
― Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh

“Theories aren’t the same when you actually have to start using them.”
― Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake

“Rather than looking outside ourselves to see if others approve, we can rewire that mechanism to turn inward and check against our purpose. “Am I being true to my purpose?” becomes the new reference point rather than “Am I being liked?”
― Michael Gervais, The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying about What People Think of You

“The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some ‘norm’), the freedom to learn from experience…”
― David Brin, Sundiver