Patricia Deegan Quotes

#1. People need to have "the dignity of risk" and "the right to fail".

Patricia E. Deegan

#2.
A priest? I said.
A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis.
Theologian, said the other.
One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.

Colum McCann

#3. Maybe every single person on the planet is completely messed up in their own special way

Zoey DuBois

#4. I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Francis Bacon

#5. The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.

Patricia Deegan

#6. We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

Patricia Deegan

#7. We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

Patricia Deegan

#8. Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.

Darren Hardy

#9. The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.

Patricia Deegan

#10. When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless ... " But I wanted to be the best, I wanted to be a super stunt guy. That's how I built myself, because of martial arts and everything.

Jackie Chan

#11. The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Patricia Deegan

#12. But some of us cannot see love, she said to herself, even when it is there, right before us, asking us to invite it in.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg

#14. I believe it is a spirit of hope that gathers us here together today.

Patricia Deegan

#15. The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

Kenneth Edmonds

#16. I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Euripides

#17. Recovery is the urge, the wrestle, and the resurrection.

Patricia E. Deegan