170 Quotes by Lisa Unger

You can’t squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.

You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that? The.

When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it’s like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the horizon line, it changes your perspective on everything else.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.

But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame of reference. We try to fit the information we receive into schemas, units of knowledge that we possess about the world that correspond with frequently encountered situations, individuals, ideas, and situations. In other words, we often see things as we expect to see them, or want to see them, and not always as they are.

It was so much simpler to see other people’s wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.

But that’s the thing about mental illness; there’s no such thing as a cookie-cutter diagnosis. We’re all crazy in our own special way. Some of us just have it worse than others.

IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can’t imagine the places you’ll end up. But most people don’t do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.

Dysfunction isn’t a choice, it’s a disease.