Sana

“Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).”
― Eddie Harmon-Jones, Cognitive Dissonance: Reexamining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion
Give it up and you will be free.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself—will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows—some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history—But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, “This fact I can do without.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night