Seki

“The truth is that the angels of anxiety — those overpowering forces for change in politics, economics, science, morals, and social policy — were at the same time agents for self-confidence.”
― Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume 3: The Cultivation of Hatred

“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

“It doesn’t matter how much the rest of us love you; if you hate yourself, the self-loathing destroys everything.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Kiss the Dead