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Most of my girlfriends are sent by the Devil and seem genuinely bemused when I do not succumb to their powers.
— Robert  Black
Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.
— Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls
It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.
— George Bernard Shaw
Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames.
— Matthew      Lewis, The Monk
Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!
— J'son M. Lee
The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I have learned in my journey of faith that, the closer I am walking with God, the more likely the devil will be working to make me stumble.
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was.” Jason smiled. “But he meant well.
— Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga
If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.
— Margaret Way, A Lesson in Loving
She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2
What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My love, I’d volunteer to live a thousand lives if I got to spend any part of them with you.
— Debra Anastasia, Bittersweet Seraphim
Why don’t I have a cool name like that. Instead of Lucifer and Beelzebub. I mean, seriously, Beelzebub? It sounds like the name of a brothel or a low life bar. Why can’t I be Lu Von Cipher? Sounds good, right?
— Cameron Jace, Mary Mary Quite Contrary
When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
Okay, how's this? I’ve been to Heaven and Hell. I’ve seen the whole world, but the only thing that makes me want to live is this: being inside you. I love you so much. You’re all I see.
— Debra Anastasia, Bittersweet Seraphim
God enjoys himself, kills, commits injustice, makes love, works, likes impossible things, just the same as I do.But, boss, I´ve said so before, and I say it again, God and the devil are one and the same thing!
— Nikos Kazantsakis, Zorba, El Griego
My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.
— Philip Pullman
Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
— James Carlos Blake, Red Grass River: A Legend
A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance.
— Jack London, The Sea Wolf
Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A greedy man is born to cavort with the devil.
— Lybian proverb
you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.''My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.
— Dean Koontz, Phantoms
I never have sympathy for those that have been blinded by the path of God. You chose to walk into the light, not realizing that you were already chained within the darkness. When a hand was offered to you, you looked up into the sky, and bowed your head in blind obedience, when you should have been creating a new possibility. Nothing is more pathetic than to see ignorance in action. Nothing is more laughable than to see the obedient ask an illusion for more power to stay frivolously obedient. I never have sympathy for those that have been blinded by the path of God. I only have sympathy for the Devil...
— Lionel Suggs
You might want to have Kate close her eyes if you ever want her to sleep with you, asshole. Because once I take off my pants, you’ll always come second.
— Debra Anastasia, Bittersweet Seraphim
Now,' cried the fiend, 'follow me! You must understand that I cannot get out by the great gate - the porter will not suffer that. Once here, there is no retreat. Follow me, therefore: we will just go to your house, where you shall dress yourself; for you can hardly go to a ball in your present costume - especially as it is not a bal masque. Mind and wrap yourself well up in your winding-sheet, for the nights are cold, and you may feel unpleasantly touched by it.'As he said this, Satan laughed malignantly; and I continued silently to walk after him.'I am sure,' continued he, 'that, in spite of the service I am doing you, you do not yet like me. You are always thus, you men - ungrateful to your friends. Not that I blame ingratitude; it is a vice upon which I pride myself, since I invented it myself; and I must say, that it is one most in vogue. But I do wish to see you a little more merry - it is the only thing I ask of you.'I answered not, but still followed my guide, white as a statue, and as cold. I was silent; but, at the pauses in the fiend's voice, I could hear my teeth chatter against each other, and my bones rattle in my body. ("The Dead Man's Story")
— James Hain Friswell
Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared from among us.
— James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
It isn't where you came from
—  it's where you're going that counts.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.
— James E. Faust
Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.
— John C. Parkin, F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
— Jack London
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish I was your favorite girl, I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world, I wish I was your favorite smile, I wish the way I dressed was your favorite kind of style
— Kate Nash
You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.
— Stephen King, The Mist
Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.
— James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it
— Andrew Schneider, The Mysteries Revealed: A Handbook of Esoteric Psychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality
The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
— Jack London, White Fang
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
(Your) potential doesn’t mean shit if you don’t get off your ass and start working.
— Rishank Jhavar, Champion's Handbook: Meteoric guide for meteoric success
Most of us are capable of more than we believe.
— Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.
— Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.
— Shanna Swendson, Enchanted, Inc.
How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation.
— Glenn L. Pace
You are not who you say you are but rather what you do. Look at what it is that you do. If you don't like what you see: decide what you would like to see instead. Make those changes. Realize your potential. Harness your power. Seize every opportunity and do what it is that allows you to be true to yourself. Don't deny yourself your path. Only YOU can decide! Only YOU have that power! Only YOU are living your life!
— Akiroq Brost
Somebody once told me the definition of hell:“On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous
— Anonymous
Realize your potential. Anyone that says one person can’t change the world is wrong. Your actions, thoughts, and words all ripple out into the world. One act of love can change someone’s life. One lifetime of love can change the world. When you realize all of your power, you can start benefiting the entire world with positive actions. Realize your potential to change the world.
— Avina Celeste
You can raise your potential, when you help someone to reach their potential.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the part of a person you must have to turn that potential kinetic, to be the kind of person who can let their awful plow.
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thing would soon become exciting. It did. They started with breaking a cup. That was the first thing they did. They did that just to show you what they COULD do, and to get you interested.
— Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat
A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available
— Sunday Adelaja
Because we are of God each one of us has the potential to be a victor
— Sunday Adelaja
If you are born of God then you have the potential to be victorious in all things
— Sunday Adelaja
Maximize the potential of everyone close to you
— Sunday Adelaja
The potential that every person has is not his possession
— Sunday Adelaja
To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know that you are pregnant with a massive potential about to be delivered
— Sunday Adelaja
Titles are prisons of human potential
— Natasha Tsakos
See things in terms of Potential. Recognize:Your Amazing Potential.
— Akiroq Brost
I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star
You have immense potential to achieve what you desire.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Negativity feeds on itself, thereby compounding the potentially undesirable outcomes.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. ( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )
— Erik Pevernagie
The marriage between potential and inspiration is pronounced by willingness. If one isn't there, then you will chase inspiration instead of it finding you.
— Unarine Ramaru
As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.
— David Cameron Gikandi, A Happy Pocket Full of Money: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now
There is the potential for your beliefs to be infinite and limitless.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Each moment has the potential to be special and memorable.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
There is no limit to the extent of the potential that is open to you.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Not limiting your beliefs opens pathways to infinite potential.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
You have a great potential.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have a great potential. Explore your special skills.
— Laillah Gifty Akita
You have great potential. Explore your special skills.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What a tragedy it would be if you lived your entire life without discovering who you are, without reaching your full potential.” Ray Mancini
— Ray Mancini, Zen, Meditation & the Art of Shooting: Performance Edge - Sports Edition
You are a potential genius, so unleash your potential to release your genius.
— Debasish Mridha
There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.
— John Bevere
Everyone has the potential to live a life of purpose.
— Dave Shepp
You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
You will do heroic deeds by faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We work to firstly realize our hidden potentials.
— Sunday Adelaja
We work to discover and release the potential of the earth around us.
— Sunday Adelaja
Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility.
— Tony Curl
You are infinitely capable. You don't live in the universe. You are the universe. You are the entire universe experiencing itself through the eyes of one human. And thus, you are free to create the reality you choose.
— Michael  Sanders
You will be amazed to see how just one moment of truth has the potential to simplify your struggles!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Only a real pastor and a true leader will be looking for ways to train and equip his people to develop their potential.
— Pastor Adelaja Sunday
Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Every moment holds the potential to cause us to see differently.
— Andrea Goeglein
The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.
— Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself
Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.
— Seth Adam Smith
When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.
— Alice Walker, A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings
Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth, but which he might display if these were greater. Most of us feel as if a sort of cloud weighed upon us, keeping us below our highest notch of clearness in discernment, sureness in reasoning, or firmness in deciding. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
— William James
We all have the greatest potential. Life is about finding it, embracing it and then learning to be with it in the world without fear of prejudice or judgment.
— Aisha Mirza
It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.
— James Rozoff
His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.
— Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
Every transaction has its process. Until you submit to it, you will always be living below potential.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
If you commit yourself to living according to His Word your potential will be unlocked, and in time, what may look small now will grow into something significant.
— Christine Caine
We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Most people I met they have more potential than me, but I don't know why they are not using it to step up.
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
I am only one, but that is infinitely better than being none.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Don’t live a normal life by default, push the boundaries of your potential.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Acorn struggles in pain to crack the hard shell and emerge. For it senses that out there… exists more and it knows it. It feels that there is a sun, even if Acorn hasn't seen it. It has felt some warmth and energy and it aches for more.
— Robin Rumi, Naked Morsels: Short Stories of Spiritual Erotica
A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.
— Brad Smith
Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
How can you want to marry a man or woman of God but you don't read your Playbook? You can’t be in sync with your potential spouse if they are studying the Bible and you aren't.
— Shon Hyneman Love And Football How to play on the same team with your spouse
You are surrounded by endless possibilities. Your potential being the sum of your beliefs.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
Human beings manifesting the fullness of who they were created to be would be inviting and correspondingly transformational in a manner almost mysterious.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
— Paulo Coelho
Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
— William James
Your journey through life and self-discovery is much like the start of a new day. As you grow, develop, and reinvent yourself, the tendrils of light tear through the darkness of your untapped potential and uncharted territory. As you learn more, discover your life’s purpose, and establish a vision for your future, the light shines through on your true self.
— Thomas Narofsky, You are Unstoppable!: Unleash Your Inspired Life
Most people aren't even close to tapping into their true potential
—  they have no idea what they are capable of in their lives.
When you have high expectations of yourself, you can achieve greatness.
— Dave Shepp
There is a great potential in everyone.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can always live extraordinary live.You are born to reach your full potential.The only limit is yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every body should be given the chance and the necessary support to unearth their full potential.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.
— Enock Maregesi
The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with possibility: it didn't necessarily help you grasp those possibilities. I still had no idea what I was going to do. I felt directionless and lost in the crowd. I couldn't yet see how the city worked, but I began to find out.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?
— Charles de Lint, Spiritwalk
If what you do doesn’t make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and change and potentiality, but as a territory ahead that awaited his exploration. He saw it as the great University library, to which new wings might be built, to which new books might be added and from which old ones might be withdrawn, while its true nature remained essentially unchanged.
— John   Williams, Stoner
The Infinite is the distance between both ears.
— Marc Torra
True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
— Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
‎"The greatest discovery you'll ever make, is the potential of your own mind.
— José Silva
Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.
— Tim Fargo, Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple
Reaching your potential is not simply about dreaming or being idealistic, It is a process that involve specific actions, exercises, discipline and hard work. It is challenging, rewarding and unending.
— Robert S. Kaplan, What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.
— Robert Greene, The 50th Law
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
Life’s best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
— Henry Miller
Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?
— Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Polish those gems within brightly, so you may shine...
— Gino Norris, Stress Diary Journal
Create your legacy by fulfilling your potential...
— Gino Norris, Stress Diary Journal
That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion
— Kailin Gow, The Protege
This life is your canvas
—  what will you make it?
When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.
— Charlie Rose
As sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we are capable of so much more. For that, good intentions are not enough. We must do. Even more important, we must become what Heavenly Father wants us to be.Declaring our testimony of the gospel is good, but being a living example of the restored gospel is better. Wishing to be more faithful to our covenants is good; actually being faithful to sacred covenants—including living a virtuous life, paying our tithes and offerings, keeping the Word of Wisdom, and serving those in need—is much better. Announcing that we will dedicate more time for family prayer, scripture study, and wholesome family activities is good; but actually doing all these things steadily will bring heavenly blessings to our lives.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God has given you a gift, why not open it?!
— Habeeb Akande
Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries
— Fela Durotoye
Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be,do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will
— Fela Durotoye
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
You will do great and terrible things, Bethany Rudan. Just make sure you know the difference before you choose to act. And look to the boy, the tracker. He anchors you.
— Meghan Ciana Doidge, Time Walker
We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us.
— Steven Redhead, Keys to Creating Your Reality
There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities.
— Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh
— Bahá'u'lláh
No one can see very clearly inside the heavy fog, no one but the fog himself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is only one autumn in a year, but in people’s life, there are many autumns in one year!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The wind likes making jokes!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
i think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'i don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide.
— David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.
— C.G. Jung
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.
— Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. "Oooh, I like my pens in a line, I'm so OCD."NO YOU'RE FUCKING NOT."Oh my God, I was so nervous about that presentation, I literally had a panic attack."NO YOU FUCKING DIDN'T."I'm so hormonal today. I just feel totally bipolar."SHUT UP, YOU IGNORANT BUMFACE.
— Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
— Sylvia Plath
This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.
— Cammie McGovern, Say What You Will
The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
— Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.
— Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall
Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.
— Tori Spelling, sTORI Telling
There’s no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can’t—and shouldn’t—force yourself to want something ‘normal’ and stop wanting what you truly want. It’s a sure way to make your life miserable.
— Alessandra Hazard, Straight Boy
I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy
— Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter.(...)mental health... is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going. The therapist is like a driving instuctor, not a chauffeur.
— Noam Shpancer, The Good Psychologist
..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.
— Amy E. Spiegel, Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
— Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace
I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I couldn’t tell the doctor what I had done to cut myself—I didn’t have any memory of it. The ER doctor was convinced that dissociative identity disorder didn’t exist. . . . A lot of people involved in mental health tell you it doesn’t exist. Not that you don’t have it, but that it doesn’t exist.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
It struck Hsing suddenly that Masada didn't even understand the nature of his own genius. To him the patterns of thought and motive that he sensed in the virus were self-explanatory, and those who could not see them were simply not looking hard enough. Yet he would readily admit to his own inability to analyze more human contact, even on the most basic level. That was part and parcel of being iru.What a strange combination of skills and flaws. What an utterly alien profile. Praise the founders of Guera for having taught them all to nurture such specialized talent, rather than seeking to "cure" it. It was little wonder that most innovations in technology now came from the Gueran colonies, and that Earth, who set such a strict standard of psychological "normalcy," now produced little that was truly exciting. Thank God their own ancestors had left that doomed planet before they, too, had lost the genes of wild genius. Thank God they had seen the creative holocaust coming, and escaped it.
— C.S. Friedman, This Alien Shore
The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.
— Michael Kenny, Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemas of Difference
I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.
— John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.
— Brittany Burgunder
What brought you here isn't your fault. We human beings have to live each day to its fullest and do our best in whatever environment we find ourselves in. There's no need to feel any shame just because your "fullest" and "best" look different from those of others.
— Naoki Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
The value of a person shouldn't be decided by the judgements of other people. Kindness brings out the best in us all.
— Naoki Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
Domestic violence is just as much a quality-of-life and liberty for community, social, and legal attention to support mental, emotional, health, wellness & physical safety as any other epidemic outbreak; only this illness has an anger managed, self-controlled, personal boundary-respecting, and accountability-subjective cure!
— Tracey Bond
Yes, you may love them to death, but are they willing to love you to life?
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.
— Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: How learning to love yourself will save your life
Find YOUR Balance.
— Kayla Rose Kotecki, Damn the Diets: How to Recover from Restrictive Diets, Dogmas, Eating Disorders and Body Degrading.
They (...) call what I have an invisible illness, but I often wonder if they're really looking. Beyond the science stuff. It doesn't bleed or swell, itch or crack, but I see it, right there on my face. It's like decay, this icky green colour, as if my life were being filmed through a grey filter. I lack light, am an entire surface area that the sun can't touch.
— Louise Gornall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies
Burnout is a war that must be won on two fronts.
— Jeanine Joy, Burnout: Prevention and Recovery, Resilience and Retention
Let go of toxic control, in order to regain healthy control.
— Kayla Rose Kotecki
You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person.There is no feeling any more, because to feel any emotion would also be to beckon the overwhelming blackness from you. My mind has now locked all this down. And without any control of this self-defence mechanism my subconscious has operated. I do not feel any more.
— Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War
Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood within the context of trauma. A traumatic stress reaction consists of *natural* emotions and behaviors in response to a catastrophe, its immediate aftermath, or memories of it. These reactions can occur anytime after the trauma, even decades later. The coping strategies that victims use can be understood only within the context of the abuse of a child. The importance of context was made very clear many years ago when I was visiting the home of a Holocaust survivor. The woman's home was within the city limits of a large metropolitan area. Every time a police or ambulance siren sounded, she became terrified and ran and hid in a closet or under the bed. To put yourself in a closet at the sound of a far-off siren is strange behavior indeed—outside of the context of possibly being sent to a death camp. Within that context, it makes perfect sense. Unless we as therapists have a good grasp of the context of trauma, we run the risk of misunderstanding the symptoms our clients present and, hence, responding inappropriately or in damaging ways.
— Diane Mandt Langberg, Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Early identiﬁcation of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously. In addition, dissociative disorders are not alleviated by treatment directed toward an intercurrent disorder. However, because the dissociative disorders are among the few psychiatric syndromes that appear to respond favorably to appropriate treatment (Spiegel, 1993), improved accuracy in differential diagnosis is critical.
— Marlene Steinberg
Early identiﬁcation of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.
— Marlene Steinberg
But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.
— Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into public consciousness, we can do the same with the causes and reality of dissociation and multiplicity.
— Carolyn Spring, Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.
— Patricia Cornwell, Body of Evidence
But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
— Edward Bunker, No Beast So Fierce
Find Your Balance.
— Kayla Kotecki
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.
— Kelly DiBenedetto, Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey
Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport
— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
Being in love with someone who doesn't love you back is a tragedy. A fantasy is having someone understand the real you and love you anyway.
— Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful
Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example, repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection. These "mechanisms" are often described in psychoanalytic terms as themselves "unconscious,” that is, the person himself appears to be unaware that he is doing this to himself. Even when a person develops sufficient insight to see that "splitting", for example, is going on, he usually experiences this splitting as indeed a mechanism, an impersonal process, so to speak, which has taken over and which he can observe but cannot control or stop. There is thus some phenomenological validity in referring to such "defenses" by the term "mechanism.” But we must not stop there. They have this mechanical quality because the person as he experiences himself is dissociated from them. He appears to himself and to others to suffer from them. They seem to be processes he undergoes, and as such he experiences himself as a patient, with a particular psychopathology. But this is so only from the perspective of his own alienated experience. As he becomes de-alienated he is able first of all to become aware of them, if he has not already done so, and then to take the second, even more crucial, step of progressively realizing that these are things he does or has done to himself. Process becomes converted back to praxis, the patient becomes an agent.
— R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
I am always in a state of Eunoia.And I'm not in it just for the vowels.
— Mark Bradford, The Man In Black 2
- Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.(Silence.)- I don't feel contempt.- No?- No. It's not your fault.- It's not your fault. That's all I ever hear, it's not your fault, it's an illness, it's not your fault, I know it's not my fault. You've told me that so often I'm beginning to think it is my fault.- It's not your fault.- I KNOW.- But you allow it.
— Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded mind can be beautiful too.
— Lisa M. Cronkhite
Without trauma-informed treatment, traumatized clients may not respond optimally and they may even be re-traumatized by the mental health system if they are labeled as “treatment resistant” because the treatment does not address the core issue of trauma; some may be misunderstood as fabricating or exaggerating their trauma history or symptoms.
— Bethany Brand
My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded my mind can be beautiful too.
— Lisa M. Cronkhite, Disconnected
If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.
— Eda J. Vor, Like Two Opposite Things
In this paper I propose the existence of two distinct presentations of DID, a Stable and an Active one. While people with Stable DID struggle with their traumatic past, with triggers that re-evoke that past and with the problems of daily functioning with severe dissociation, people with Active DID are, in addition, also engaged in a life of current, on-going involvement in abusive relationships, and do not respond to treatment in the same way as other DID patients. The paper observes these two proposed DID presentations in the context of other trauma-based disorders, through the lens of their attachment relationship. It proposes that the type, intensity and frequency of relational trauma shape—and can thus predict—the resulting mental disorder. - Through the lens of attachment relationship: Stable DID, Active DID and other trauma-based mental disorders
— Adah Sachs
When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box presented. One reason a dissociative individual might have several different diagnoses, however, is that as different parts present, they may also be presenting with diagnostic issues that are different from the host. Such differences especially make sense given the nature of DID.
— Deborah Bray Haddock, The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.
— Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.
— A.S. King, Still Life with Tornado
in a society where rigid sex-role differentiation has already outlived its utility, perhaps the androgynous person will come to define a more human standard of psychological health
— Sandra Bem
Reverend Don Marxhausen disagreed with all the riffs on Satan. He saw two boys with hate in their eyes and assault weapons in their hands. He saw a society that needed to figure out how and why - fast. Blaming Satan was just letting them off easy, he felt, and copping out on our responsibility to investigate. The "end of days" fantasy was even more infuriating.
— Dave Cullen, Columbine
This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?
— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours
— Nancy Tucker, The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope