Meaningful Recovery Quotes

#1. All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Andrew Vachss

#2. The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

Dario Argento

#3. That moment when you are standing at the edge of a life decision may be terrifying, but if you don't jump in - you'll never know!

Maggie Pajak

#4. Snape might refer to their work as "cleaning," but in Harry's opinion they were really waging was on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher.

J.K. Rowling

#5. [So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

#6. Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types.

David Chang

#7. God created me to delight people with my goals.

Romario

#8. 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

Geoff Shepherd

#9. I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.

Mads Mikkelsen

#10. ... It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

M T Anderson

#11. Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

Jeffrey Sachs

#12. I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.

Kelly Hu

#13. A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Mike Tyson

#15. There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Jo Brand

#16. A dyslexic man walks into a bra- T-shirt

Darynda Jones

#17. There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

Ann Voskamp

#18. Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

Elizabeth Warren