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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

by Emily Nagoski (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 24, 2022 09:34PM

“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

tags: desire, longing, love

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“That’s another thing that people don’t understand about depression: we don’t want to take a shower, we don’t know why we feel this way, and even if we did, it wouldn’t make us stop feeling this way. We have lost all interest in doing anything, especially anything that once brought us joy—because that thing will not bring us joy, and we can’t bear the meaning of that. It would be too much. It would crush us.”
― Heather B. Armstrong, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live

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