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“Hickey goes on: “So beauty is not the product of communities. It creates communities.”
― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

“The attitude of the need for approval, of trying to get another person to decide one’s worth, is just dependence.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“PHILOSOPHER: As Fromm says, ‘While one is consciously afraid of not being loved, the real, though usually unconscious fear is that of loving.’ And then he continues by stating, ‘To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power