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“Heshimu kila mtu. Ongea na kila mtu. Msikilize kwa makini kila unayeongea naye. Maana Mungu anaweza kumtumia mtu yeyote, hata kichaa, kukupa ufunuo wa mambo yake.”

God Mungu Mad Person Listen Carefully Respect Everyone Heshimu Kila Mtu Kichaa Sikiliza Kwa Makini

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.”

World Mind Persons This World Buddhism Essentials Mad Satisfied Purity Peace Of Mind Cursing Mad Person

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.”

Should Looks Persons Book Ideas Play Stories Age Song Turns Causes Madness Mad Medical Behave Mad Person

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Humans Kind Children Persons Ideas America Race Periods Sight Our Children Mad Stranger Radical Your Children Human Race Stakes Twelve Radical Ideas Mad Person

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.”

Persons Crazy Mad Mad Person

Author:Michelle Williams

“Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?”

People Knows May Persons States Artist Audience Members Aspect Scientist Mad Come Up Strikes Altered Malady Mad Person

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The mad person who knows that they are mad is close to sanity.”

Knows Persons Mad Sanity Mad Person

Author:Juan Ruiz de Alarcon

“In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.”

Way Persons Real Madness Mad Wounds Phenomenon Wounded Mad Person

Author:Paul Virilio

“I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.”

Want Giving Persons Film Careers Week Months Give Me Mad Phones Want Me No Money Phone Calls Mad Person

Author:Dylan Moran

“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”

People Mind Persons Reason Play Mad Stuck Remembered Flew Mad Person

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”

Persons Like You Mad Sane I Like You You Re Pretty Mad Person

Author:Maureen Johnson

“The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.”

Persons Beautiful Black Animal Behinds Lovers Singing Mad Shining Train Paint Teeth Innocence Planes Beloved Behind You Helen Mad Person

Book:Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Source: Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.”

Thinking Men Way Years Kind Persons Spirit Millions Taken Sky Fool Understood Mad Thrown Free Spirit Mad Person

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.”

Way Needs Persons Real Moments Helping Darkness Trouble Limits Madness Mad Another Way Real Things Mad Person

Book:Break It Down: Stories

Source: Break It Down: Stories

“A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet”

Persons Mad Visionaries Mad Person

Author:Judith Thurman