Crazy quotes
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"Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?""
"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you."
"Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you?"
"Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you."
"This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem."
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"Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we’re one bar closer to humanity."
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us.""
"Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'."
"I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic."
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."
"I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”."
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."
"God notices you. The fact is he can't take his eyes off of you. However badly you think of yourself, God is crazy about you. God is in love with you. Some of us even fear that someday we'll do something so bad that he won't notice us anymore. Well, let me tell you, God loves you completely. And he knew us at our worst before he ever began to love us at all. And in the love of God there are no degrees, there is only love."
"Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along."
"When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind."
"If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson"
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference."
"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
"If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too."
"Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
