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Iloba sounded full of a simple happiness. There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. For such people, Obinze felt both admiration and boredom.
“What will history’s verdict be about our time?”
― Kairos
― Kairos
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Allein hier draußen wurde mir mit einem körperlichen Schmerz bewusst, dass ich meine Zeit nicht genutzt hatte. Um Minuten gekämpft, wenn es darum ging, einen Bus noch zu erreichen. Jahre verschwendet, weil ich nicht das getan hatte, was ich wollte.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“Relationships in life don't really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you've been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally)--all of them evoke memories, conscious or not.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Wir sind von Geburt an auf der Titanic. Wir gehen unter, wir werden das hier nicht überleben, das ist bereits entschieden. Nichts kann das ändern. Aber wir können wählen, ob wir schreiend und panisch umherlaufen, oder ob wir wie die Musiker sind, die tapfer und in Würde weiterspielen, obwohl das Schiff versinkt.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
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