Unadjusted Quotes

#1. Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

Erich Fromm

#2. We all have our pasts and baggage, Mimi. It's our decision whether they fuck with our future.

Katie Ashley

#3. What happened in the virtual world, where beauty existed for the purpose of being hated and besmirched, was more compelling than what happened in the real world, where beauty seemed to have no purpose at all.

Jonathan Franzen

#4. We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little intellect in matters of the soul,

Robert Musil

#5. If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Nick Cave

#6. When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

John Burnside

#7. I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.

Brie Larson

#8. Emotions often must be portrayed from an inner feeling, of course, but I had a double advantage because I was learning to direct my as-yet expressionless feelings as well as gaining an ability to express emotion by a very conscious manipulation of my muscles.

Jane Greer

#9. Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Blaise Pascal

#10. To be contemporary is to rise through the stack of the past, like the fire through the mountain. Only a heat so deeply and intelligently born can carry a new idea into the air.

Mary Oliver

#11. Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used as a technique. But courts, in fact, are baths of emotions.

Helen Garner

#12. I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

John Patitucci

#13. Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

Dave Barry

#14. People who love one another can be silent together.12

Dallas Willard

#15. A friend is a favourable family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins
of happiness and unhappiness.

Virginia Woolf