“You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.” WorldCharacterHomeDreamGoneLonelinessAdventureReturnNormalAspectLongingProbabilityOccasionalVikingsHomesickness Author:Agatha Christie
“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.” MenWorldHas BeensLeftAbilityModernMinutesPersonalityDevelopmentHigherMetsNormalAspectScientistPatientVanityObsessedEncountersEnterprisePortionsScholarAutonomyFragmentsExaggerationMorbidSufferersTechniciansPsychiatricHigher Learning Author:Richard M. Weaver
“The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.” GivingKidsAttentionTeacherNormalResourcesAspectFaultsVariousChainsLinksClassroomDotsDifferentiateAspects Of LifeDyslexia Author:Malik Yusef
“Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.” TryingWellsMayTodayChoicesAnimalForeverOne ThingNormalEatingAspectVicesAcceptableSurgeryVice VersaEating Animals Author:Jasper Fforde
“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.” PeopleFeelsStatesMomentsConsciousnessBehaviorNormalAspectOkayAddictionToxicAlteredObsessiveNormal LifeStates Of ConsciousnessBrief MomentsAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Moby
“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.” FactsInterestingPlanetsPersonalityNormalAnxietyEvidenceAspectUnhappinessCompulsionInteresting ThingsFashionableStrangeness Book:The Psychopath Test Source: The Psychopath Test