“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.”
— Nicole Krauss
“As long as you keep secrets, and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself. The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
— Bessel Van der Kolk
“You can’t stop being afraid by just pretending everything that scares you isn’t there.”
— Michael Marshall
“If the highest aim of a captain was to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
“Don’t allow someone to treat you poorly just because you love them.”
— Unknown
I understand your grief; even time does not always heal this kind of pain.
— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Auguste Franchomme wr. c. August 1848
The most frequent lie we tell is “I don’t need to write that down, I’ll remember it.”
“When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much & it always seems you hurt the most.”
— Unknown (via quotefeeling)
““Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.” - Mark Haddon”
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A sceptic seeks the truth regardless of their feelings. A conspiracy theorist follows their feelings regardless of the truth.
If humans didn’t need to sleep, society would force us to work an extra 8 hours every day