Allen Quotes

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

I didn’t want him morally grey. I wanted someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.

Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Mind is the Master power that molds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:— He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass.

Assuming I am mad (Ha!) god, how I must have suffered to go mad. And all the time I was calling to people to save me and no one put out his hand and held it. This is like suicide, only I am alive and looking out of this living death I can see the people weep and feel sorry. Alas, nobody even weeps. It's all a dream.

You cover your eyes with your hands and think that the problem will go away. To say that you do not care about politics is to be a man adrift on the ocean who says that he does not care about water.

Men have the capacity for good as much as they have the capacity for cruelty. What is right and what is wrong is written on our hearts. But when there is war, men follow what they choose to follow and rationalize the evil they do. The Serbs see this as their country. They see us as a blight. They are told that the only way to have peace is to expel us or kill us. When such are the words they hear every minute of every day, it becomes too loud for them to listen to their hearts. They will do terrible things and believe they are doing what is right.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Hack # 12: The Two-Minute Rule The Two-Minute Rule, from best-selling author David Allen’s book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, is a simple but powerful way to cut through a long to-do list. The basic principle is that if a task takes less than two minutes, you do it right now. Knocking out quick tasks straight away prevents mental clutter and overwhelm, clearing space to focus on what really matters.

He looked down with his lips in a tight line. “I mean, I know it was wrong that I accidentally called you someone else’s name—

Yes. Sir Frederick Cappellucci-Hammond, the first of his name.

I knew I wanted a husband, so I needed to find a boyfriend. I knew in order to find a boyfriend, I needed to date. And in order to find a date, I needed to engage with men in a more intentional way. But I wasn’t really interested in trying anything new.

We still do not have a single laboratory test in psychiatry. Because there is always more variability in the results within the mental disorder category than between it and normal or other mental disorders,

The absence of biological tests is a huge disadvantage for psychiatry. It means that all of our diagnoses are now based on subjective judgments that are inherently fallible and prey to capricious change.

Can the bell curve provide a scientific guide in deciding who is mentally normal and who is not? Conceptually, the answer is “why not,” but practically the answer is “hell no.

If there are just a few mental health clinicians in a developing country, only the most severely disturbed will appear mentally disordered—

Utilitarianism provided the first, and remains the only practical, philosophic guidance on how and where to set a boundary between “normal” and “mental disorder.” The guiding assumptions are that “normal” has no universal meaning and can never be defined with precision by the spinning wheels of philosophical deduction—it is very much in the eye of the beholder and is changeable over time, place, and cultures. From this it follows that the boundary separating “normal” from “mental disorder” should be based not on abstract reasoning, but rather on the balance between the positive and the negative consequences that accrue from different choices. Always seek the “greatest good for the greatest number.

Utilitarianism provided the first, and remains the only practical, philosophic guidance on how and where to set a boundary between “normal” and “mental disorder.

I sat up and cleared my throat. ‘I don’t mean no harm, but women on this app are just looking for someone to spend money on them, and that ain’t me,’ I read with a deep voice, trying not to laugh. ‘I make my own money. I got my own everything. I provide for me and mines. What do you bring to the table? What do you have to offer besides what’s between your legs? If you’re not a gold digger, swipe right.