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^{The following are a selection of favourite quotations sent in by OCD sufferer}
Luis Leonel López. Luis is a student of mathematics and lives in Uruguay

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James
Oppehim 

The real miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk upon the earth.
Thich Nhat Hanh 

The Divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.
Morihei Ueshiba 

Die on your feet, don't live on your knees.
James Brown Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.
Tao Te Ching 

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do
José Ortega y Gasset 

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities
José Ortega y Gasset 

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Tolstoy 

I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.
James Brown 

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
James Brown

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
James Brown

The primary obsession of an O.C.D. sufferer is her or his disorder.
Luis Leonel López    

Mastering others is strength,
mastering yourself is true power.
....Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching   
 

Having OCD is like being allergic to life -
every waking moment is spent in
a state of mental hyper-sensitivity.
Anonymous 
 
Neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them,
OCD'ers clean them, and psychiatrists collect the rent.
Anonymous  

Winter doesn't last forever.
Truman Capote

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Hypatia

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it
than to be sane and have one's doubts.
G. B. Burgin

I lived in terror. I had fear of sleeping. I had fear of myself. Later I was able to think: 'Okay, Marthita, Do you want to live or do you want to die? Which do you want?'  And so it was. For now, I am well. I only have to be very careful with stress, from all points of view. Emotional and psychological. What happens is that I do too much. The last two years I have been like a crazy person. Furthermore, I had a great deal of emotional stress, above all with my sentimental life, which is a disaster. In that sense I am doing very badly. My sentimental life is a desert. What happens is that, in general, I don't feel settled in any respect. It's as if I were always constructing myself. But I think that that is life: until we die, we are always constructing ourselves.
Martha Argerich

Come on, guys! It seems that if we don't jurry up and change the
world, the world will change us!
Mafalda

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as
it is and not as it should be!
Miguel de Cervantes

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Gustav Jung

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."
Denis Waitley

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel Trilling

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.
Guillaume Apollinaire

To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake

The failure does not exist, in each failure, we changed of way.
To arrive at which you are, you must go by where you are not.
To get to be what one is, is the greatest happiness.
Alejandro Jodorowshy

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can
alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
Michael Flatley

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus

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