Natalie V.

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
― Alain de Botton

“It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill”
― Franz Kafka, Amerika

“child. This ability to grieve—that is, to give up the illusion of his “happy” childhood, to feel and recognize the full extent of the hurt he has endured—can restore the depressive’s vitality and creativity and free the grandiose person from the exertions of and dependence on his Sisyphean task. If a person is able, during this long process, to experience the reality that he was never loved as a child for what he was but was instead needed and exploited for his achievements, success, and good qualities—and that he sacrificed his childhood for this form of love—he will be very deeply shaken, but one day he will feel the desire to end these efforts. He will discover in himself a need to live according to his true self and no longer be forced to earn “love” that always leaves him empty-handed, since it is given to his false self—something he has begun to identify and relinquish.”
― Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles