My Med Today

“An over examination of life can deter you from life itself”
― Ilyas Kassam

“Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.”
― Kushwant Singh

“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.”
― Criss Jami

"My soul begins to heal when I stop punishing myself and others."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

“In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and “l’avenir” [the ‘to come]. The future is that which – tomorrow, later, next century – will be. There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l’avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l’avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.”
― Jacques Derrida

“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as he thinks, but he finds it too strange and he does not know what to do with it?

We talk about what to do with the atom bomb...But man's heart, his spirit is the deadliest thing in creation. Are not all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves which they wish, in their deep timidity, to try to preserve?

Are not all of man's efforts at order an attempt to still man's fear of himself?”
― Richard Wright, The Outsider

“I am my own clone. I’m not who I was yesterday, but then again I am.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
― Albert Einstein

“I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

For Life is just an employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.”
― Jessie B. Rittenhouse

“I cannot apply myself to the distinctions and the reservations they insist on making -- I exist only as a whole man. I lay claim to nothing but my own nature, and the pleasure I take in an action is my clue to its propriety.”
― Andre Gide, The Immoralist

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
-Johnny Depp

“Just keep moving forward and don't give a **** about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
― Johnny Depp

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
― Johnny Depp

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”
― Johnny Depp

"Aren't you mad? No sir, I am just unique. But I think everyone else is mad, who thinks that I am mad."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

"Aren't you crazy to use psychosis to aid your recovery? But it is still better than doing what they say. They say I will never recover!"
-ChristianDM, On Living with His madness.

"How do you deal with your negative emotions like fear, anxiety, despair and pain? Oh! they are my friends and teachers. They make me stronger and wiser to live the meaning of my life."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

“I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.”
― Albert Einstein

"If you ask me, I will answer, but only to myself. I have very little time to talk about others because there is so much I want to learn for my life."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

“Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.”
― William Shakespeare

“For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“Ah, clever clogs, but it will have happened in one of my alternative lives. You know--the lives hot-shot scientists tell us we are living at the same time as this one we know about. Which being so, how do you know that what happens in one of your alternative lives doesn't sometimes leak through into your consciousness in this life, and make you sad that you aren't living that particular alternative life instead of this one? Don't you sometimes feel depressed for no reason you can think of? I do. And maybe that's why. We've had a leak from an alternative life and want that life now. Like wanting an ice cream when you were little, which you knew was in the freezer, but your mom wouldn't let you have it.”
― Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land

"If Manic is my strong man, then Depression is where I go home to bind up my wounds and nurse me back to health."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

"If we take a simple question and split it into parts to complicate it, we may end up searching for answers our whole life; we have forgotten about the original simple question."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.