Wamika

“I'm convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I "should be" and what i am. My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it. It seems to begin whenever I smuggle into my mind an expectation about how I or others should be. It is the tension between my desire to control the world and the recognition that I can't. "I will be what I will be" - where is the anxiety in that ? Anxiety is the recognition that I might not reach the rung on the opinion ladder I have just set for my self. I fear death most when I am about to exceed what I believe others think of me; then death threatens to cut me off from myself, because "myself" is not yet.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk.”
― Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas

“It was easy, now that I understood passion properly, to see why you would move heaven and earth to secure it.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident