Eric G. Wilson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.”
-- Eric G. Wilson

Source : Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books

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“But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary to go on, and takes stock of where it's been and where it's going. During these gloomy pauses, we often discover parts of ourselves we never knew we possessed, talents that, properly activated, enrich our lives.”
-- Eric G. Wilson

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“The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.”
-- Eric G. Wilson

Source : Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.110, Macmillan

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“Creating doesn't make us unhappy, unhappiness makes us creative. To create is to live, and in living, we want only to creat more, to set our foundations depper and reach higher toward the sky. If sadness is what makes us creative, then sadness is nothing else but life.”
-- Eric G. Wilson

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“American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.”
-- Eric G. Wilson

Source : Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.25, Macmillan

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“Our past is a novel that we are constantly revising.”
-- Eric G. Wilson

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“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.”

“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”

“The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.”

Source : Alice Miller (1981). “The drama of the gifted child”, Basic Books (AZ)

“That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.”

“It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin...”

Source : Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.573, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”

“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”

“There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.”

“The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.”