Elena

“The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“The “symptom” theory goes as follows: An affair simply alerts us to a preexisting condition, either a troubled relationship or a troubled person.”
― Esther Perel, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

“He watched his brother find peace of mind through psychiatry. That’s why he won’t have anything to do with it.

I don’t follow. Isn’t his brother happy?

Utterly and always happy. And my husband says somebody’s just got to be maladjusted; that somebody’s got to be uncomfortable enough to wonder where people are, where they’re going, and why they’re going there.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.”
― Albert Ellis