Ghaemi Quotes

#1. The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.

S. Nassir Ghaemi

#2. Falling in love is easy. Being in love sucks.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#3. MOST OF US make a basic and reasonable assumption about sanity: we think it produces good results, and we believe insanity is a problem.

S. Nassir Ghaemi

#4. failure deflates illusion, while success only makes illusion worse

Nassir Ghaemi

#5. I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Abraham Lincoln

#6. I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Len Wein

#7. To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#8. King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage needed to resist without fighting back physically...

S. Nassir Ghaemi

#9. Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.

Tyler Florence