Erik Karlsson Quotes & Sayings

Like all of modern science, the field of psychiatry, especially in its current biological incarnation, has become smitten with materialist reductionism, the idea that all phenomena can be explained by the interaction and movement of material particles. As a result, to suggest that anything other than brain mechanisms in and of themselves constitute the causal dynamics of a mental phenomenon is to risk being dismissed out of hand. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and
and rational argument. — Barack Obama

The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots are within our soul. They are the greatest gifts, of all. — Ellen J. Barrier

Most of the time I manage to forget to be afraid. But sometimes I think, 'This could be is,' and I move forward anyway. — David Levithan

To brim with hope, to cultivate just one small kernel of faith, to sport a touch of confidence, and to have one's innate material embedded with layers of feisty are all that makes for the plucky kind of courage that means anything in the end. — Connie Kerbs

As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency. — J. K. Bharavi

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. — Ambrose Bierce

But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone and I was able to live without the gigantic knot in my stomach. Without the boulders weighing down my shoulders. — Holly Hood

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times. — Marv Levy

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was answerable. — Jules Verne