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“My breath caught hard in my chest, the sensation from my feet crashing into the realization that getting everything I dreamed of really would come at a cost.”
― Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
― Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
“The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person (because I need something from them).” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t the fullness of love. Instead there is attachment—there is clinging and fear. True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.”
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“Pain seems to have this taboo joy that reminds us that we’re simultaneously fragile and strong to be alive.”
― Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
― Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
“You are only able to love in the first place if you love yourself, if you believe in yourself, if you know yourself. Only then can you approach the other.… Love can only come if you are clear about who you are.”
― The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
― The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
“Bullshit involves language, statistical figures, data graphics, and other forms of presentation intended to persuade or impress an audience by distracting, overwhelming, or intimidating them with a blatant disregard for truth, logical coherence, or what information is actually being conveyed. The key elements of this definition are that bullshit bears no allegiance to conveying the truth, and that the bullshitter attempts to conceal this fact behind some type of rhetorical veil. Sigmund Freud illustrated the concept about as well as one could imagine in a letter he wrote his fiancée, Martha Bernays, in 1884: So I gave my lecture yesterday.”
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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