Mario Topić

“The older we get, the more difficult it is to find other people who can give us the love our parents denied us. But the body's expectations do not slacken with age—quite the contrary! They are merely direct at others, usually our own children and grandchildren. The only way out of this dilemma is to become aware of these mechanisms and to identify the reality of our own childhood by counteracting the processes of repression and denial. In this way we can create in our own selves a person who can satisfy at least some of the needs that have been waiting for fulfillment since birth, if not earlier. Then we can give ourselves the attention, the respect, the understanding for our emotions, to sorely needed protection, and the unconditional love that our parents withheld from us.”
― Alice Miller, The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting

“And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars that exploded more than five billion years ago.
We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“And yet, rather than this I know that my Lord is different from the God that is preached in the churches.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“You don't get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay”
― Jordan B. Peterson