The Center Cannot Hold Elyn Saks Quotes

But explaining what I've come to call "disorganization" is a different challenge altogether. Consciousness gradually loses its coherence. One's center gives way. The center cannot hold. The "me" becomes a haze, and the solid center from which one experiences reality breaks up like a bad radio signal. ~ Elyn R. Saks

I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life. ~ Elyn R. Saks

Don't focus on it," she said. "Don't define yourself in terms of something which even many highly trained and gifted professionals do not fully understand. ~ Elyn R. Saks

In my experience, the words "now just calm down" almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to. ~ Elyn R. Saks

Nothing I can do. There will be raging fires, and hundreds, maybe thousands of people lying dead in the streets. And it will all - all of it - be my fault. ~ Elyn R. Saks

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. ~ Elyn Saks

So the grades I earned were the only objective signal I ever received about how I was doing in the world. The task of setting and achieving academic goals operated as a sort of adhesive; I needed it to hold myself together. Failing (or, at least in this case, failing my own expectations) tore that adhesive off and further splintered my fragile sense of self. ~ Elyn R. Saks

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses. ~ Elyn Saks

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions. ~ Elyn Saks

There are forces of nature and circumstance that are beyond our control, let alone our understanding, and to insist on victory in the face of this, to accept nothing less, is just asking for a soul-pummeling. The simple truth is, not every fight can be won. ~ Elyn R. Saks

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently. ~ Elyn Saks

Mental illness is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers. ~ Elyn R. Saks

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness. ~ Elyn R. Saks

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States. ~ Elyn Saks

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. ~ Elyn R. Saks

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy. ~ Elyn Saks

A mental illness diagnosis does not automatically sentence you to a bleak and painful life, devoid of pleasure or joy or accomplishment. I also wanted to dispel the myths held by many mental-health professionals themselves - that people with a significant thought disorder cannot live independently, cannot work at challenging jobs, cannot have true friendships, cannot be in meaningful, sexually satisfying love relationships, cannot lead lives of intellectual, spiritual, or emotional richness. ~ Elyn R. Saks

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven. ~ Elyn Saks

If you are walking on a path thick with brambles and rocks, a path that abruptly twists and turns, it's easy to get lost, or tired, or discouraged. You might be tempted to give up entirely. But if a kind and patient person comes along and takes your hand, saying, "I see you're having a hard time- here, follow me, I'll help you find your way," the path becomes manageable, the journey less frightening. ~ Elyn R. Saks

Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isn't like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (and the odds are not in your favor), you're lonely there. The people you boarded with originally are far, far ahead of you, and now you're stuck playing catch-up. ~ Elyn R. Saks

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker. ~ Elyn Saks

Always give chance for the things you don't want. Cause sometimes they turn out to be the great things you'll ever have. ~ Elyn Balongcas

Well, centrum means center," said Jackie. "Permanebit is a future tense verb. 'Remains' is one translation. Or maybe 'endures.' Together it'd be something like, 'the center will endure.'" I jerked my head up. "Hold," I whispered, my voice cracking. "The center will hold." Sydney's last words. Not for Eddie, but for me. ~ Richelle Mead

The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. ~ Katherine Center

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination. ~ Sol Saks

Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately. ~ Gene Saks

If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so. ~ Gene Saks

I told you before, we're the center," she said. "And the center will hold. ~ Richelle Mead

But the things we remember are what we hold on to, and what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives. We only get one story. And I am determined to make mine a good one. ~ Katherine Center

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit. ~ Sol Saks

For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you. ~ Gene Saks

Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America. ~ Diego Della Valle

This is why classical thought concerning structure could say that the center is, paradoxically, within the structure and outside it. The center is at the center of the totality, and yet, since the center does not belong to the totality (is not part of the totality), the totality has its center elsewhere. The center is not the center. ~ Mark Z. Danielewski

I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am. ~ Diego Della Valle

Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both ... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries. ~ Gene Saks

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart. ~ Katherine Center

Centrum Permanebit"
The Center Will Hold ~ Richelle Mead

... the knowledge traditionally associated with the center is deeply compromised by its sheer lack of knowledge ... with regards to the margins ... [on the margins one] knows (and has been required to know) far more about the center than the center ever knows ... about the margins. ~ Fernando Segovia

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland. ~ Richard Russo

We all carry our mothers inside us. ~ Katherine Center

It's my battle cry: Appreciate Everything! ~ Katherine Center

That's just the human condition, sweetheart. We're always doomed to waste our time. ~ Katherine Center

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats. ~ Al-Waleed Bin Talal

You know what I'm realizing now?" he said to her. "What?" she asked, looking at him adoringly. "We are sitting in the center of the world." She laughed. "You're so funny." "No, think about it," he said. "Columbus Circle is the center of Manhattan. Manhattan is the center of New York. New York is the center of America, and America is the center of the world. So we are sitting in the center of the world, right? ~ Imbolo Mbue

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life. ~ Laozi

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center. ~ Josiah Strong

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus

It's vital to learn how to make the best of things. ~ Katherine Center

Millennials are a generation that communicates without permission. ~ BBVA Innovation Center

He was like a Latino firefighting Ken doll - so bizarrely perfect, he wasn't even real. ~ Katherine Center

Hold serve,Hold serve,Hold serve. Focus,Focus,Focus. Be confident,Be confident,Be confident. Hold serve. Hold,Hold,Hold. Move Up, Attack, Kill. Smile. Hold!!! ~ Serena Williams

Isn't there enough misery in the world? Do I really have to spend my leisure time absorbing more of it? ~ Katherine Center

The third eye is located between the eyebrows and a little above. The heart center is located directly in the center of the chest. The naval center is about two inches below the navel. ~ Frederick Lenz

You can't just wish strength for yourself. Or wisdom. Or resilience. Those things have to be earned. ~ Katherine Center

The center will hold.
Will it, Sydney? I wondered.
Because I'm falling apart. ~ Richelle Mead

Center of your heart is the center of the Universe. Go to that center and radiate positive vibration for the well-being of the humanity. ~ Amit Ray

I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky ... Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars. ~ Jacqueline Cochran

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site. ~ Donald Trump

A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work. ~ Gabriel Fackre

You can't understand this yet, but that's most of life: breaking your own promises to yourself. ~ Katherine Center

But thinking is to be a corrective in our life - it's not supposed to be a center of our life. Living is supposed to be the center of our life, being is supposed to be the center - with correctives around, which hold us like the skin holds our blood and our flesh in. But our skin is not a way of life - the way of living is the blood pumping through our veins, the ability to sense and to feel and to know. And the intellect doesn't help you very much there - you should get on with the business of living. ~ Ray Bradbury

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. ~ Confucius

It's amazing how brave you can be when you feel safe. ~ Katherine Center

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter. ~ Katherine Center

I don't think trying to be happy means you can never be sad," I said. "Right? ~ Katherine Center

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention ... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more. ~ Gong Li

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat. ~ Bryce Harper

I'm at my very best when things are at their very worst. ~ Katherine Center

And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam. ~ Nicki Minaj

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being. ~ Vernor Vinge

This realignment requires a knowledge of how our thought processes work and what we need to be able to meditate. ~ Sivanda Yoga Center

There are people nobody notices, but the world revolves around them. They're the quiet ones, the strong, peaceful ones, who form the unbreakable hub for a bunch of fragile spokes. True families aren't bred, they're spun together. And at their center, at the center of the infinite wheel of every family of every kind, blood or otherwise, there is a hub, that person, those people, who hold the wheel together and keep it turning. ~ Deborah Smith

We made a choice to do joy on purpose. Not in spite of life's sorrows. But because of them. ~ Katherine Center

The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold. ~ Jim Butcher

We all have times that we get off center. ~ James Redfield

If you feel lucky, then you are. ~ Katherine Center

People are always beautiful when you love them. ~ Katherine Center

Dying is easy. It's not dying that's hard. ~ Katherine Center

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Because you absolutely never believe in yourself - and he finds a way to believe in you every damn day. ~ Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness. ~ Katherine Center

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction. ~ Nicolaus Copernicus

I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving. ~ Ben Bernanke

It's not the easy moments that define who we are. It's the hard ones. ~ Katherine Center

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things. ~ Colin Greenwood

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. ~ Camille Paglia

If you were mine, Iris there would be no doubt what position you'd hold in my life. You'd be center. I'd play you at the five. ~ Kennedy Ryan

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks. ~ Jerry Mathers

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated. ~ Sarah Koenig

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center. ~ Ken Thompson

Being a center of attraction is being on the center-stage with confidence. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof. ~ Marlo Thomas

And I was grateful. For all the things that had brought me to this moment, and for every single thing that would follow. ~ Katherine Center

I've always wanted to be the center of attention. ~ Maria Conchita Alonso

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere - wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

We're just going to have to wait for-" Then she saw us, and looked Ian over, in his flannel shirt and jeans. "The Brawny paper-towel guy. ~ Katherine Center

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter. ~ Katherine Center

The Rebbe then elaborated: "All knowledge you'll ever learn, every experience you'll have in life, are the circles. They're not the center. If you don't have a solid center, you'll have jagged circles, incomplete circles, many different circles. I sense that you need that center before you start building your circles. ~ Joseph Telushkin

Senior centers are the perfect places for the semior citizens to have fun without worrying about anything else. Find a great senior center near you. ~ Nick

Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger. ~ Leo Strauss