Liz

“Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from life.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to me because I expressed myself through it to the outside, or to a weight of circumstances that I supposed was the air I breathed. In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, an exile where I'd always thought I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”
― Abraham Maslow