Preeti Shenoy · 209 pages
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“Creativity is closely associated with bipolar disorder. This condition is unique . Many famous historical figures and artists have had this. Yet they have led a full life and contributed so much to the society and world at large. See, you have a gift. People with bipolar disorder are very very sensitive. Much more than ordinary people. They are able to experience emotions in a very deep and intense way. It gives them a very different perspective of the world. It is not that they lose touch with reality. But the feelings of extreme intensity are manifested in creative things. They pour their emotions into either writing or whatever field they have chosen" (pg 181)”
“if you have not made somebody's day happier, if you've not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth!”
“If I pretended to be "normal" and behaved just like everybody else, if I masked my emotions and smiled a lot, even if I felt disconsolate, nobody would be able to tell”
“The world is indeed a better place when there is love, friendship, acceptance and hope. Powered by these you can indeed overcome anything including destiny.”
“We are what our thoughts have made us. So take care what you think. Thoughts live. They travel far.”
“You have no right to kill others. Then how can you have a right to kill yourself?”
“William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
“Sometimes decisions that are taken in the nick of a moment are the ones that have the power to affect a whole train of events that follow.”
“It is indeed amazing how words and kindness have the power to heal, perhaps much more than medicines.”
“Sorry Pa," I managed to finally say, choking on my own words. It was the hardest apology I have ever made in my life.
I truly meant it. But I had no words left to convey its depth.”
“I wrote and wrote and poured out my twenty one year old heart into those pages.”
“Sometimes all one needs is a strong anchor, a person you can trust blindly. Someone who will lead you on, be there for you and never let you down.”
“Never to belittle love, no matter where it came from and to be a little humbler, nicer and kinder with my words and actions.”
“you gravitate instinctively towards people you can relate to and then gradually over the months a bond develops.It”
“Physical pain is far easier to bear than mental agony.”
“It was the first time in months that somebody was explaining what was happening to me and assuring me that it was okay.
It was the first time in months that somebody was talking to me like I mattered.
It was the first time in months that I was being assured that I need not feel guilty for something that was out of my control.”
“Once you know what direction to take, finding the path to it becomes easy.”
“Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.”
“The world is indeed a better place when there is love, friendship, acceptance and hope. Powered by these, you can indeed overcome anything, including destiny.”
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
“The feeling of a full stomach with completely satiated taste buds, a nice atmosphere and good company under a night sky is one of the most pleasant things that one can experience.”
“Life was indeed unpredictable and it was true that it could take a sudden unexpected turn.”
“love and time are the greatest gifts one can receive.”
“Each day, I feel, is a gift to be truly cherished. If you do not laugh for a day, if you have not made someone's day happier, if you have not appreciated something good that has happened to you and if you have not felt thankful to be alive, then you have wasted that day of your life on earth.”
“There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not. Why not? Why not?”
“They say when a calamity strikes you it stuns your normal senses so much that emotions are held in check. Perhaps that is what happened with me.”
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience,”
“They say when a calamity strikes you it stuns your normal senses so much that emotions are held in check.”
“It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.”
“Quiet. My body melted heavily into the chair; I heard a cart go up the street. The room grew suddenly big with meaning. Something was about to happen, was happening: each object in the room seemed perfect of its kind, its kind being just its one self. The moment split into Eternity and I went with it: I had neither skin nor bones, but flowed into the world, sacred along with everything else, and was lost.”
“You can never tell from the door what’s behind a door.”
“I've been thinking about how ugly gossip is. How it victimizes people, but how as much as we say we hate it, we still feed on it like it was crack.”
“Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult to tell you about England, because there all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive.”
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