Seki

“This question goes way beyond my own little episodes of transcending overcaffeination and melancholy. It applies, in principle, to all negative feelings: fears, anxieties, loathing, self-loathing, and more. Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.”
― Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

“You will only feel deprived if you think that you’re missing out on something. You are not missing out. You are not depriving yourself. Binge eating is a false friend. It gives you nothing. You’re not broken and you do not need to binge on food to be fixed. If anything, it’s the opposite; by constantly bingeing on food you are depriving yourself from living free from the stress, self-loathing and anxiety of constantly bingeing.”
― Ali Kerr, The Binge Code: 7 Unconventional Keys to End Binge Eating and Lose Excess Weight

“Democratic politics was many things, among them a kind of seduction, documenting once again the interplay of aggression with libido. It awakened and often gratified the electorate’s hostile impulses, or at the very least, its desire for aggressive self-assertion. At the same time, it yoked followers to their leaders to produce a community rife with erotic overtones. Love for one’s favorite politician was intensified by hatred for the opposition.”
― Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred

“And never concern thyself with anything of which thou hast no knowledge: verily, [thy] hearing and sight and heart - all of them - will be called to account for it!”
― Holy Quran 17:36