Maria Egervari

“In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.”
― Brandon Mull, A World Without Heroes

“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”
― Helen Exley

“Every breath we draw wards off the death that constantly impinges on us…. Ultimately death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a short while before swallowing it up. However, we continue our life with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Schopenhauer Cure

“In health, then, children develop enough belief in themselves and in
other people to hate external controls of all kinds, controls have changed
over into self-control. In self-control the conflict has been worked
through within the person in advance. So I see it this way: good condi-
tions in the early stages lead to a sense of security, and a sense of security
leads on to seIf-control, and when selfcontrol is a fact, then security that
is imposed is an insult (36).”
― D.W. Winnicott