But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.
The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.
I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.
Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
You gonna deal with Mr. Hot and Moody?" "Not sure. I may just pull out my e-reader." He nodded. "Probably safer for your sanity.
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.
I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity for the children and also manage to do my best at work.
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.
You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.
I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity.
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.
I feel 'SmackDown' has the absolute best tag teams in the world: we have us; we have The New Day. We have the Usos. We have The Club. We have Sanity. We have the Hardys. We have Rusev and Nakamura.
Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.
It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.
Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.
Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.
What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.
Pray for Trump's sanity and clarity, because his power to cause real damage to our country is enormous.
We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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