Lyusi Iliev

“Деструктивността е резултат на неизживян живот. Индивидуалните и обществените условия, създаващи препятствия за живота събуждат деструктивната страст, която подхранва конкретни враждебни тенденции срещу другите или срещу собствената личност.”
― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

“Your hair grows by itself, your heart beats by itself, and your breath happens pretty much by itself. Your glands secrete the essences by themselves and you do not have voluntary control over these things, and so we say they happen spontaneously. So, when you go to bed and try to go to sleep you interfere with the spontaneous process of going to sleep. If you try to breathe real hard you will find you get balled-up in your breathing. So if you are to be human, you just have to trust yourself to go to sleep, to digest your food, and to have bowel movements. Of course if something goes seriously wrong and you need a surgeon that is another matter, but by and large the healthy human being does not from the start of life need surgical interference. One lets it happen by itself, and so with the whole picture that is fundamental to it. You have to let go and let it happen, because if you don’t then you are constantly going to be trying to do what happens easily only if you do not try. When you think a bit about what people really want to do with their time, and you ask what they do when they are not being pushed around or somebody is telling them what to do, you find they like to make rhythms. They listen to music and they dance or they sing, or perhaps they do something of a rhythmic nature like playing cards, bowling, or raising their elbows. Given the chance, everybody wants to spend their time swinging.”
― Alan W. Watts, Tao of Philosophy

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“С течение на времето тези форми на близост все повече избледняват и започва търсене на обич към друг човек, към нов непознат. Пак чуждият човек се превръща в "интимен" другар, отново влюбването е въодушевяващо и интензивно, отново то постепенно намалява силата си и свършва с желание за нови завоевания, нова любов - винаги с илюзията, че тя ще бъде различна от предишната. Тази заблуда се подпомага от измамливия характер на сексуалните желания.”
― Erich Fromm