It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.