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“In a way, Openness looks like Extraversion. But Extraversion is a pattern of throwing open the doors and walking out through them. Openness is a tendency to throw open the doors and invite the whole wide world to come in. The “approach” energy is what they share. High Openness indicates an embrace of mental stimulation and mental exercise. An Open personality is attracted to ideas, the more unfamiliar, the better. This”
― Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
― Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality
“but in Claire’s mind it would always be Holly Golightly who stole her daddy. We belong to nobody and nobody belongs to us.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins
“The fundamental problem is not the external stress, such as the life events quoted in the studies, but an environmentally conditioned helplessness that permits neither of the normal responses of fight or flight. The resulting internal stress becomes repressed and therefore invisible. Eventually, having unmet needs or having to meet the needs of others is no longer experienced as stressful. It feels normal. One is disarmed.”
― When the Body Says No
― When the Body Says No
“Sixty miles north of Los Angeles.”
― The Four Winds
― The Four Winds
“She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn’t reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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