“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”
Variant: the courage it took to get out of bed each
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to face the same things
over and over
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enormous.
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
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American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
“Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.”
Source: Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25
“You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
City Aphorisms (1984)
“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
“I hate saying the same thing over and over again.”
XII. 453–454 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt.
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Variant translation (by David Wyllie): One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.
Source: The Metamorphosis (1915)
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.”
Brown did include this quote in her book Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68, but it appears she was just paraphrasing a quote that had already been written elsewhere. The earliest known appearance of a similar quote is the "approval version" of the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" released in November 1981, which included the quote "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." A PDF scan of the 1981 approval version can be found here http://www.nauca.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1981-11-Basic-Text-Approval-Form-White.pdf, with the quote appearing on p. 11 (p. 25 of the PDF), at the end of the fourth paragraph (which begins "We have a disease; progressive, incurable and fatal"). More in this article https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/ on Quote Investigator website.
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“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Misattributed to various people, including Albert Einstein and Mark Twain. An early occurrence was used as a teaching reference at University of California, Irvine in social science lectures in the later 1960s. Also found in a 1981 text from Narcotics Anonymous.
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