Theya Absey

“With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“The world is a chaos, an irreducible plurality of forces, instincts and drives which ceaselessly clash.”
― Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

“Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. In most cases, not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from. It is like a two-edged sword. When you cut the other person, the more violently you hack at yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.”
― Emily McDowell