Anna

“People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.”
― Albert Ellis

“Many are the things that have caused terror during the night and been turned into matters of laughter with the coming of daylight.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Any given system of power is built on an assumption (which of course is trying to portray itself as an axiom) that to receive joy you need to pay or obey. The ultimate act of subversion is thus finding joy in a refusal to pay and obey, in an act of living by radically different values. It’s not an act of deprivation or austerity, it’s not a vow, it’s an act that reveals joy that transcends given boundaries.”
― Nadya Tolokonnikova

“The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity