“In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.” LittlesHomeLyingOrderWomenChanceHavensCreatingSurvivalViolentIslandsSanityChaotic Book:Falling Bodies Source: Falling Bodies
“Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.” HumansComputerSurvivalUltimateDeeperSubtleCollectivesSanityCrucialInteractionInterfaces Author:Alan Cooper
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.” WorldWayWarFoundNationsCausesChanceMy OwnStruggleEnvironmentBattleSurvivalHundredPressureMereForgottenPopulationSavedResistanceDamnParksWildernessHopelessOverwhelmingSanityConservationCan NotPreservationCrowdedNuclear WarGood Causes Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire
“Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.” DreamRealitySpeakGriefSurvivalIdealsRiversNobleUpliftingSanityDistractedWeepingPlatonicMusic Speaks Author:Pam Brown
“My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.” ThinkingKnowsDifferentParentComedySurvivalPressureTechniqueReleaseTeenagerSanityPassed AwayValve Author:Jeff Ross
“In a mad world only the mad are sane.” WorldCrazyDepressionSurvivalMadnessMadMental IllnessInsaneRanInsanityThriveSanitySaneMadness And SanityInsanity And SanityMadness And InsanityMad WorldInsane World Author:Akira Kurosawa
“Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.” LyingAttentionSurvivalCapacityDelightPay AttentionSanity Author:Julia Cameron
“Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.” AbilityVisionDependsElementsSurvivalSanitySelect Book:Damage: a novel Source: Damage: a novel
“I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.” PeopleIfsLittlesEndsWisdomMightValuesRealizingModernPossibilitySurvivalContradictionSanitySaneAbsurdityDoubtful Author:Thomas Merton