Jonathan Chambers

“He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Instead of focusing on what’s wrong, focus on what’s right – your unique strengths, abilities and passions. It might sound cheesy, but if you feel like you don’t fit in this world, it’s because you’re here to help create a new one.”
― Leanne Maskell, ADHD an A-Z: Figuring it Out Step by Step

“The playwright Carl Zuckmayer wrote that ‘The netherworld had opened its portals and spewed out its basest, most horrid, and filthiest spirits … What was being unleashed here was the revolt of envy; malevolence; bitterness; blind, vicious vengefulness.’15 A British journalist who witnessed it called the procession ‘an indescribable witches’ sabbath’.16”
― Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz