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“Nekad davno čovjek je, čudeći se, osluškivao kako mu iz prsa odjekuje zvuk pravilnih udara i nije imao pojma o čemu je riječ. Nije mogao poistovjetiti samoga sebe s nečim tako stranim i nepoznatim kao što je tijelo. Tijelo je bilo kavez, a u tom kavezu bilo je nešto što je gledalo, slušalo, bojalo se, razmišljalo i čudilo se. To nešto, taj ostatak nakon što je oduzeto tijelo, to je bila duša.
Danas, naravno, tijelo više nije nešto nepoznato. Znamo da je ono što udara u prsima srce, a da je nos završetak cijevi koja služi za dovođenje kisika u pluća. Lice nije ništa drugo, nego neka vrsta komandne ploče na koju su priključeni svi tjelesni mehanizmi: prehrana, vid, sluh, disanje, mišljenje.
Otkad je naučio što je što u njegovu tijelu, tijelo manje uznemiruje čovjeka. Znamo već i to da je duša jednostavno aktivnost sive mase velikoga mozga. Dvojnost tijela i duše zaodjenula se znanstvenim terminima i možemo joj se veselo smijati kao starinskoj predrasudi.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Danas, naravno, tijelo više nije nešto nepoznato. Znamo da je ono što udara u prsima srce, a da je nos završetak cijevi koja služi za dovođenje kisika u pluća. Lice nije ništa drugo, nego neka vrsta komandne ploče na koju su priključeni svi tjelesni mehanizmi: prehrana, vid, sluh, disanje, mišljenje.
Otkad je naučio što je što u njegovu tijelu, tijelo manje uznemiruje čovjeka. Znamo već i to da je duša jednostavno aktivnost sive mase velikoga mozga. Dvojnost tijela i duše zaodjenula se znanstvenim terminima i možemo joj se veselo smijati kao starinskoj predrasudi.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.”
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“Do Not Lie to Yourself
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.”
― The Light in the Heart
We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.”
― The Light in the Heart
“Respectability requires a form of restrained, emotionally neutral politeness that is completely at odds with any concept of normal human emotions.
The emotional labor required to be respectable, to never ruffle anyone’s feathers, to not get angry enough to challenge much less confront those who might have harmed you, is incredibly onerous precisely because it is so dehumanizing. Respectability requires not just a stiff upper lip, but a burying of yourself inside your own flesh in order to be able to maintain the necessary facade. It requires erasing your memory of how it felt to be hungry, cold, scared, and so on until all that is left is a placid surface to mask the raging maelstrom underneath. We talk about stress and illness, but
the stress of respectability is unparalleled. You muffle yourself over and over, until the screaming is in your veins, in your high blood pressure and lower life expectancy. And then as you look around, you realize that you didn’t even get the respect, the validation, or the comfort that you thought was waiting on the other side. You’ve pulled away from the messy, loud, emotional spaces that represent the less respectable side of you and your culture, but at what cost?”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
The emotional labor required to be respectable, to never ruffle anyone’s feathers, to not get angry enough to challenge much less confront those who might have harmed you, is incredibly onerous precisely because it is so dehumanizing. Respectability requires not just a stiff upper lip, but a burying of yourself inside your own flesh in order to be able to maintain the necessary facade. It requires erasing your memory of how it felt to be hungry, cold, scared, and so on until all that is left is a placid surface to mask the raging maelstrom underneath. We talk about stress and illness, but
the stress of respectability is unparalleled. You muffle yourself over and over, until the screaming is in your veins, in your high blood pressure and lower life expectancy. And then as you look around, you realize that you didn’t even get the respect, the validation, or the comfort that you thought was waiting on the other side. You’ve pulled away from the messy, loud, emotional spaces that represent the less respectable side of you and your culture, but at what cost?”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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