“Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance.”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
― My Heart and Other Black Holes
― My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Denial of one's need for others is the most common type of defense against bonding. If people come from a situation, whether growing up or later in life, where good, safe relationships were not available to them, they learn to deny that they even want them. Why want what you can't have? They slowly get rid of their awareness of the need.”
― Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future
― Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future
“Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different.”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What's so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak states, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inward from the world at large?”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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