My life was the perfect example of persistent seeking until I turned thirty. The deep sense of lack drove me to seek one success after another, but no achievement brought lasting peace and instead created an escalating inner conflict.
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Educated
― Educated
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Educated
― Educated
“But sometimes I think we choose our illnesses, because they benefit us in some way.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.”
― Educated
― Educated
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