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Dorothea Dix

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THOMAS R. INSEL People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody inv...
JOHN LE CARRE People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first re...
NORMAN COUSINS It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON “Every time you try to conform to other people’s expectations you are unhappy. When you are who ...
DHAMMIKA DHARMAWARDHANE (To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium...
JOHN CONNOLLY The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connect...
DAVID W. EARLE I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred year...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called c...
ROBERT BURNS Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about...
ECKHART TOLLE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and...
GEORGE ELIOT My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Look at me as a man who performed works musically. Who uplift people who need upliftment, mentally, ...
GREGORY ISAACS Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely...
LEANN RIMES No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes....
VIRGINIA WOOLF Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stret...
AARON SWARTZ Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thor...
FRANCOIS FENELON Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thor...
FRANCOIS FTNELON Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men
SUSAN GLASPELL It's not just [Summers'] leadership. It's where he's leading us. We are just unhappy with what seems...
JUDITH RYAN I've dedicated all my time to this because I was left in the dark for so long. It changed my attitud...
FRED WITTMEYER Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean,...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is only those people in the habit of laughing at others or deriving pleasure out of others mistak...
APURVA GAGLANI I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books...
LANGSTON HUGHES Women who attend support groups and counseling for a reasonable period of time are likely to gain so...
GAYLE MARTIN As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of ...
H. RIDER HAGGARD There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
DON MARQUIS Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit ...
DEAN ACHESON Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to eve...
MICHAEL REDHILL People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn'...
MARILYN MONROE Life is so beautiful, but when you look at it with all your worries, it seems nothing but troublesom...
PHILIP T. M. People make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.
KEN NDARU Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps ...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this...
SUSAN CHOI Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when...
IRVING LAYTON Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come wh...
IRVING LAYTON Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with non...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF As a person who feels at their best when they are helping others, the INFJ wants nothing less than t...
JENNIFER SOLDNER To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others to freely be themselves
SOL CHANELES What is the difference between killing one's will versus just killing them? At least for one they ge...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is...
WENTWORTH MILLER Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po...
LISA KLEYPAS I look at what I have and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy
JOSEPH ROUX The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with the...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people d...
DENNIS PRAGER Percentage of company killed is likely a powerful variable because it serves as a proxy for various ...
JUDITH PIZARRO At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already don...
DENNIS RITCHIE Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Women are raised to be the caretakers, so they're less likely to seek out services because it's abou...
LORRAINE BROWN People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
JARON LANIER This is why this fight is really a social justice issue for me. In the end, millions of people are a...
KATHERINE KLEM It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event tha...
JAMES PURNELL It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA In the world of so-called villains, what we need is not another hero. What we need is to stop the in...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought ther...
VERA BRITTAIN In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others ...
SIMON SINEK There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
BOB ANDERSON I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be ...
SARGENT SHRIVER With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the ...
ERIC HOFFER Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
MANOJ BHARGAVA At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I live...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about?
PAULA STOKES The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Learn to believe in your capabilities and at the same time be happy for the success of others as hap...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA They already, in a sense, lease space on their home page to others, such as Drugstore.com and Pets.c...
DAN RIES The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
LEIGH HUNT I close my eyes I make myself unhappy so you'll go. Without me, oh what's wrong with you?
SARA QUIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN No one can ever make you feel inferior without your permission, Tory. Don’t give it to them. Reali...
SHERRILYN KENYON In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to...
ABERJHANI Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy ...
GEORGE ELIOT As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES As to diseases make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
BILL WATTERSON He tries to explain why man behaves most improbably, strangely, at variance with his nature, how it ...
VACLAV HAVEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It seems to be that when people think about giving at Christmas time, we all want to make sure that ...
BUNNY SUMMERLIN Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping i...
ROY T. BENNETT so far as you continue to entertain what makes you unhappy, you shall always dance to the tune of wh...
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DOROTHEA DIX My wish is to be known only thru my work.
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DOROTHEA DIX Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty....
DOROTHEA DIX No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
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DOROTHEA DIX The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it we...
DOROTHEA DIX The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beaut...
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DOROTHEA DIX With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impo...
DOROTHEA DIX My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit.
DOROTHEA DIX The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the perse...
DOROTHEA DIX I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, t...
DOROTHEA DIX Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the t...
DOROTHEA DIX Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, exce...
DOROTHEA DIX The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teac...
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DOROTHEA DIX The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes
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DOROTHEA DIX Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manusc...
DOROTHEA DIX If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the...
DOROTHEA DIX It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you ...
DOROTHEA DIX I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
DOROTHEA DIX A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toi...
DOROTHEA DIX While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in p...
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DOROTHEA DIX Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!
DOROTHEA DIX But the truth is the highest consideration.
DOROTHEA DIX Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.
DOROTHEA DIX As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no retu...
DOROTHEA DIX Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
DOROTHEA DIX All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, an...
DOROTHEA DIX Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and t...
DOROTHEA DIX That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the tr...
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OTTO DIX I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t...
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OTTO DIX You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
OTTO DIX I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reaso...
OTTO DIX All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is ...
OTTO DIX Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I'...
OTTO DIX I will either be famous or infamous.
OTTO DIX Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary...
OTTO DIX I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beaut...
OTTO DIX You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
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ADRIAN DIX It really has been a collective effort.
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LOUISE DIX If these [motions] are going to be seriously pursued there is a lot to be resolved.
GEORGE DIX It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
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DOROTHY DIX The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads
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JOE DIX It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that make...
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DENNIS DIX The problem is that the costs are accelerating faster than our fees are accelerating.
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GEORGE DIX My judgment is that simply because a prosecutor decides that one approach is more effective than ano...
GEORGE DIX This is serious stuff. They have obviously upped the ante.
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DOROTHEA LANGE A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
DOROTHEA LANGE Old habits are strong and jealous.
DOROTHEA BRANDE While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...
DOROTHEA LANGE The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impos...
DOROTHEA BRANDE To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
DOROTHEA BRANDE There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
DOROTHEA BRANDE Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
DOROTHEA BRANDE A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
DOROTHEA BRANDE The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
DOROTHEA BRANDE Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
DOROTHEA BRANDE Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
DOROTHEA BRANDE The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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DOROTHEA BRANDE Act as if it were impossible to fail.
DOROTHEA BRANDE So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
DOROTHEA BRANDE A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
DOROTHEA LANGE The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own...
DOROTHEA LANGE I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of d...
DOROTHEA MACKELLAR The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
DOROTHEA BRANDE Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
DOROTHEA LANGE A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twin...
DOROTHEA KENT The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized...
DOROTHEA BRANDE The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a c...
DOROTHEA BRANDE All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impo...
DOROTHEA BRANDE Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
DOROTHEA BRANDE All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impos...
DOROTHEA BRANDE Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate...
DOROTHEA LANGE I many times encountered courage, real courage. Undeniable courage. I've heard it said that that...
DOROTHEA LANGE A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun
DOROTHEA LANGE To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own ...
DOROTHEA LANGE It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes ...
DOROTHEA LANGE Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, an...
DOROTHEA BRANDE Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange.
DOROTHEA LANGE This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening ...
DOROTHEA LANGE One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impos...
DOROTHEA BRANDE The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
DOROTHEA LANGE It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
DOROTHEA LANGE Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we...
DOROTHEA LANGE They can't take whatever these people have under them and say I'm gonna sell because we're not makin...
DOROTHEA PALE At all, and that's what scares me. The City and County is not responding to us at all. We're not goi...
DOROTHEA PALE We do not intend to close down our operations or withdraw. We are absolutely committed to pursuing o...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS We are not withdrawing our staff and we are still present in all the Palestinian territories, both l...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS These images are extremely shocking to us.
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS We are shocked and dismayed at the mistreatment and abuse displayed in these images.
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS The type of treatment in these images -- video or photos -- very clearly violates the rules of inter...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.
DOROTHEA LANGE The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that'...
DOROTHEA LANGE One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
DOROTHEA LANGE I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
DOROTHEA LANGE Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.
DOROTHEA LANGE If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that st...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK Part of the rationale for that is not that we're growing in population, but that we have one school ...
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON We've got some time and we have to use that time and our resources wisely.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON We anticipate that we will see anywhere from 600 to 1,200 new students. Just in recent days we have ...
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON We just recently finished a facilities study and that will go a long way with preparing us.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON All our new teachers are pretty evenly distributed between elementary and secondary schools.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON This is a new program and I think it is one that is needed in the county to train our young people.
DOROTHEA A. SHANNON I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island,...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats,...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice ...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I hav...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, an...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and...
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