Toben Cnn Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes they almost made me feel glad that I had a few extra years to play my depression out with therapy and other means, because I think its useful in youth- unless suicide or drug abuse are the alternatives- to have some faith in the mind to cure itself, to not rush to doctors or diagnosis's ... I sometimes worry that part of what creates depression in young people is their own, and their parents, and the whole worlds impatience with allowing the phases of life to run their course. We will very likely soon be living in a society that confuses disease with normal life if the panic and rush to judgment and labeling do not slow down a bit. Somewhere between the unbelievable tardiness that the medical profession was guilty of in administering proper treatment to me and the eagerness to with which practitioners prescribe Ritalin for 8 year old boys and Paxil for 14 year old girls, there is a sane course of action. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America. — Kathleen Sebelius

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option. — Ilona Andrews

I am capable of running my own life. I don't need you ... I just want you. — Kelly McClymer

Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy. — Frederick Lenz

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction. — Annie E. Clark

Daily memorise one passage of Scripture. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not. — Sydney J. Harris

Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future. — Louise Hay

It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions. — R. Scott Bakker

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it. — Sam Harris

Only silence within yourself makes your inner tunes audible. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann