People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'. - Patricia Deegan

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Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world

Patricia Deegan

People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.

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The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.

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The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

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We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

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We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

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The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.

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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.

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