Quotes About Normalcy

No hay nada malo en estar deprimido —dice Pearsall—. La vida y sus transiciones pueden ser tristes. Llorar... no es ser "disfuncional". Es ser humano.»

A sane person in a world gone crazy has always been considered insane, you know?

Time had changed the magical to mundane

No specimen jars. No weird stuff pickled in formaldehyde.

Griezman said, "Not literally, of course. He's obsessed about certain things, that's all. No doubt rooted in racist and xenophobic pathologies, and worsened by irrational fears. But otherwise he's quite normal.

In fact, studies show that the people with the most accurate self-perceptions tend to be moderately depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or both. An overly positive self-evaluation, on the other hand, is considered normal and healthy.

I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more

but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

Tea, thought Mma Ramotswe—no matter what was happening, no matter how difficult things became, there was always the tea break—that still moment, that unchangeable ritual, that survived everything, made normal the abnormal, renewed one's ability to cope with whatever the world laid before one. Tea.

Dix lit a cigarette and also surveyed the room. Nice people, healthy and wealthy. Normal as you and me. Normal as Sylvia when she didn't have the megrims. But you didn't know what was beneath beach-tanned faces and simple expensive clothes. You didn't ever know about thoughts. They were easily hidden. You didn't have to give away what you were thinking.

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

I saw a bunch of kids who needed love and acceptance and to be allowed to live as normal children, instead of having to fight to conceal their misery, fear, and weakness.

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.

I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.

I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

Contrary to popular belief," he began, "every normal person is both male and female in some degree." What he called "erotic emotions" are felt by all people, toward virtually all other people. The problem is that "people not trained to an analytical point of view fail to consider these more complex expressions of erotic feeling," and tend to regard them as abnormal.