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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

Nathaniel Branden's book is the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and study, already hailed in its hardcover edition as a classic and the most significant work on the topic. Immense in scope and vision and filled with insight into human moti

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“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Uninspired, Sad, Lonely

“I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Music, Art

“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: The Bell Jar, Uplifting Literature

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Friends, Drunk, puke

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Emptiness, Tornado, Stillness

“The only problem was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Religion, Church, Why we believe what we believe, Before and after, Quote of the Moment

“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Christmas, Seasonal Depression

“Is there no way out the mind?”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Mind

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Best Friends, Friends, Friendship

“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: friendzone

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: weird loving friendship, puke, Together, old friends, Friends

“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”

— Sylvia Plath, books.google.com

Tagged: Drinking, vodka, Power

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Life Is A Journey, Having Fun

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Nature

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: strength, Inspirational, Tired, Burnout