Samuel Butler

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Such as take lodgings in a head that’s to be let unfurnished.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

I keep healthy and I’m always very active and always have been so. I don’t really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me, and that’s what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, y’know, is always with you.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

I use the world as my therapy – as my therapist.

I feel like there’s this glamour… where the woman who has a psychological illness is in fur, laid out on a chaise. Whereas in reality, a woman with mental illness or… is struggling with her psychological wellbeing is often in sweats and in a T-shirt that used to belong to her dad and is covered in food bits.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

I got the mumps. They threw me in a crib so I wouldn’t roll out onto the floor. And there’s a big bay window in my house, and that window stayed perfectly still until that train started to chug. At a certain speed, I could reach up and feel the pane, and that glass pane would vibrate. I said, Doggone, there’s got to be a reason for this. So I go to the kindergarten teacher, and she takes me to the science teacher, and the science teacher takes me to the library and reads it off to me — “This is called resonance.” That was the beginning.

And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

We can’t let people down when they can’t get any medical care, when they’re sick and don’t have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

When individuals have access to the information about their bodies they can begin to change outcomes.

My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?