A Quote by Jaggi Vasudev

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite thin.

Jaggi Vasudev

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Jaggi Vasudev
Indian - Author
Born: September 3, 1957

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