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“Needing compassion from others gives them the opportunity to share it.”
Kiera Van Gelder

Mary Midgley
“At present, when people become aware of this [common metaphorical] imagery, they tend to think of it as merely a surface dressing of isolated metaphors - as a kind of optional decorative paint that is sometimes added to ideas after they are formed, so as to make them clear to outsiders. But really such symbolism is an integral part of our thought-structure. It does crucial work on all topics, not just in a few supposedly marginal areas such as religion and emotion, where symbols are known to be at home, but throughout our thinking.”
Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live By

Jean-Paul Sartre
“Hands don't catch thoughts”
Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“The problem with needing people to love you despite who you are is that you end up subtly compromising for them and so internalize their prejudice and their rage. Rather than let them reject you, you allow all their nonsense to live inside you. You don't realize it but you agree to feel uncomfortable about this bit of yourself too. Just slightly. Just enough to keep them in your life. You settle for being mildly content with who you are rather than proud or thrilled, and any attempts at love will be thwarted by this refusal to love yourself completely.”
Simon Amstell, Help

“It had for a long time seemed true to me that "ignorance" was rather a state of false knowledge, giving one a deceptive sense of security which rested on the ability to remain uninformed.”
Sheridan Fenwick, Getting It: The Psychology of EST

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