Sanity Quotes
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
To be whole, nonfragmented in action, in life, in every kind of relationship, that is the very essence of sanity. Sanity means to be whole, healthy and holy.
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.
I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.
We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that.
I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.
It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."
When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
I love yoga in general. It's so important for me to incorporate it into my routine, it's important for my sanity!
