{"quotes":[{"text":"The heightened sanity of science and the sheer lunacy of magic. It's in the area where they overlap that we both are able to find... Ecstasy!","author":"Matt Kindt","tags":["ecstasy","lunacy","magic","sanity","science"],"id":6081,"author_id":"Matt+Kindt"},{"text":"Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["gossip","humor","sanity","witches","women"],"id":7867,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"When psychotherapy began, it was about the practitioner listening to a patient and interpreting what the patient said, in order to afford the patient insights about his or her psyche. But now we understand that the main curative part of psychotherapy is the relationship itself. It appears not to be relevant which psychology school the practitioner belongs to. What matters is the quality of the relationship and the practitioner's belief in what he or she is offering.","author":"Philippa Perry","tags":["mentorship","psychotherapy","relationship","sanity"],"id":8190,"author_id":"Philippa+Perry"},{"text":"Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough. ","author":"John Irving","tags":["insanity","sanity"],"id":10394,"author_id":"John+Irving"},{"text":"Christ,' he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,'You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.","author":"Kristen Callihan","tags":["coffee-love","face","floated","madness","reflection","sanity","softly","sop","surf","talking-to-yourself","unrequited-love"],"id":10829,"author_id":"Kristen+Callihan"},{"text":"Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.","author":"Machado de Assis","tags":["madness","sanity"],"id":13554,"author_id":"Machado+de+Assis"},{"text":"Sanity is very rare  every man almost  and every woman  has a dash of madness.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["sanity","insanity"],"id":15219,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Some people wouldn’t still be sane, if they were not religious or superstitious; some wouldn’t be disabled or dead.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","believer","believers","cripple","crippled","disability","disable","disabled","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","religion","religious","sane","sanity","satire","superstition","superstitious"],"id":16415,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There's a boy whose affection I am determined to hunt down and kill. It used to be material objects I felt I needed to be happy. It would make me feel stable if I had him. If I had someone like him, it would prove that I'm stable, and then I wouldn't have to do the work to get there. I am constantly looking for ways to cede control of my worries to someone, anyone.","author":"Emma Forrest","tags":["depression","love","sanity"],"id":21035,"author_id":"Emma+Forrest"},{"text":"When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.","author":"Terry Goodkind","tags":["crazy","sanity","society","world"],"id":22218,"author_id":"Terry+Goodkind"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":278,"pages":28,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}