Theya Absey

“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

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“You believe you have the time to put off that phone call you haven’t made to your mother. You let an old argument fester. You fold down the page in a travel magazine and tell yourself one day, you’ll get to Istanbul or Santorini or back to the town where you were born. You have the luxury of time, until you don’t - and then it becomes clear what’s most important.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

“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