Burcu A

“İyilik demek kimseye kötülüğü dokunmamak değil, kötülük yapacak cevheri içinde taşımamak demektir.”
― Sabahattin Ali, İçimizdeki Şeytan

“When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observation about what a lot of people who were happy with themselves seem to have done, namely:
1. Take a careful inventory of their shortcomings and flaws
2. Adopt a code of values that treats these things as virtues
3. Admire themselves for living up to it
Brutal people admire themselves for being manly; compulsive pedants admire themselves for their attention to detail; naturally selfish and mean people admire themselves for their dedication to helping the market reward talent and punish failure, and so on.”
― John R. Perry, The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

“We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the "good boy" or "good girl".”
― don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Bir gün, belki on sene oluyor, bir hocam bana: "Zekanı mirasyedi gibi harcıyorsun!" demişti. Doğru... Zekamı har vurup harman savurdum ve nihayet iflas ettim... Hiçbir şeyim kalmadı... Ben zekayı radyum gibi bitip tükenmez bir cevher sanıyordum...”
― Sabahattin Ali, İçimizdeki Şeytan