“That's the thing about life: Just because we don't get the answers we're hoping for doesn't mean they aren't answers nonetheless.”
― We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story
― We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story
“My job didn't involve working directly with patients, but I thought about them a lot. I saw them as victims of our fucked-up, materialistic, impersonal, hectic, over-mechanized, dehumanizing society. There wasn't much mystery about why these people were so screwed up. The mystery was why everyone else wasn't nuts too. But somehow I never figured it could ever happen to me, that I could some day be shuffling around in slippers and pajamas, bumming cigarettes and mumbling to myself. There were too many people who loved me, who would never commit me to an institution, whose love would keep me from getting that spaced out.”
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
― The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“Our lives begin in the everyday and stay in the everyday. Only in the everyday can we begin to create truly great worlds.”
― The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
― The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
“And then I started thinking about the blackberries, and I remembered a time my mother and I walked around the rims of the fields and pastures in Bybanks, picking blackberries. We did not pick from the bottom of the vine or from the top. The ones at the bottom were for the rabbits, my mother said, and the ones at the top were for the birds. The ones at people-height were for people.”
― Walk Two Moons
― Walk Two Moons
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