Maria Egervari

“There is no addiction centre in the brain, no circuits designated strictly for addictive purposes. The brain systems involved in addiction are among the key organizers and motivators of human emotional life and behaviour; hence, addiction’s powerful hold on human beings.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

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

“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
― Stephen Hawking

“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