Living With Ocd Quotes & Sayings

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort. — Amos Oz

Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions. — Abram Gitspof

I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really. — Sigourney Weaver

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. — Oswald Chambers

Television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence. — Marya Mannes

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century. — Carlos Fuentes

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse. — Wm. Paul Young

I felt as if I were living just above the surface of my life. It was lonely and utterly exhausting trying to make sure that everything was perfect all the time. No truth left unsaid, no hand or surface unwashed. Whoever said that high school was the best time of our lives definitely did not have OCD. — Kristin Albright

I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the room just as Sophie Winkleman. — Sophie Winkleman

I believe alot of churches in America are not churches. — Paul Washer

I have OCD mixed with ADD; you try living with that. — Justin Timberlake

I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine. — Corey Ann Haydu

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. — Karl Marx

What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving. — Lurlene McDaniel