These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers. . . Restlessness and discontent are vital things. . . Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.
Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.
I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.