Terri Cheney Quotes

#1. Happiness is fine, in its season, but happiness out of season is a sure harbinger of doom.

Terri Cheney

#2. I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.

Lisa See

#3. The cruelest curse of the disease is also its most sacred promise: You will not feel this way forever.

Terri Cheney

#4. Was drug induced happy still happy? Was it the right kind of happy? Did it count?

Terri Cheney

#5. I could try to care, but I ain't sure it's worth the bother.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#6. You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. Without the darkness, how can we ever hope to understand the light?

Terri Cheney

#8. These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to admire. We were hopelessly outnumbered, but we still slapped and kicked and karate-chopped ourselves until we reached an uneasy truce.

Terri Cheney

#9. I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.

Steve Largent

#10. The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever.

Terri Cheney

#11. Alas, for all my knowledge and my skill, The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still, And yet I shan't persuade myself that I Must bow before a supernatural will.

James K. Morrow

#12. I still like to get carried away - but passively.

Robert Plant

#13. Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.

Michel Gondry

#14. Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

Arthur Phillips

#15. I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films'.

Sophia Myles

#16. True beauty is not the absence of ugliness, but the acceptance of it.

Terri Cheney

#17. I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the way manic you never listen to anybody but yourself.

Terri Cheney

#18. Bring your reality to life by mining the intuitive abilities of your heart.

Steven Redhead

#19. Trust is as fragile as fairies' wings and almost as hard to find.

Terri Cheney

#20. I realized then why I was avoiding all the other patients. They were all potential mirrors. What I really feared wasn't the insanity of strangers. What I feared the most was my own disease. I was terrified I would catch a glimpse of myself in passing.

Terri Cheney

#21. If you nurture it long enough, a lie can become a life.

Terri Cheney

#22. Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Lowell Thomas

#23. Few things are strong enough to survive that deadly clash of mania and depression. Certainly not love. Love is far too fragile: it is a picture window, just begging to be shattered.

Terri Cheney

#24. But instability like mine needs considerable distance to pass for mere quirkiness.

Terri Cheney

#25. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.

Terri Cheney

#26. Coram Deo means that while we are always at God's disposal, God is never at ours. "To believe in such a God," Luther said, "is to go down on your knees."23

Timothy George

#27. Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.

Terri Cheney

#28. Love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.

Terri Cheney

#29. I've never liked the telephone. It's a noisy, shrill intruder. If it were up to me, I'd ban all phones and bring back visiting days, like in Jane Austen and Edith Wharton novels:

Terri Cheney

#30. New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

Aby Rosen

#31. It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance!

Salman Al Odah

#32. The world is essentially bipolar: driven to extremes but defined by flux. Saints are always just a stumble away from sinners. Nothing is absolute, not even death

Terri Cheney

#33. [ ] manic sex isn't really intercourse. It's dicourse, just another way to ease the insatiable need for contact and communication. In place of words, I simply spoke with my skin.

Terri Cheney

#34. If you don't know what you want to achieve in your presentation your audience never will.

Harvey Diamond