Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real?

After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.