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“Conventional life advice (…) is actually focusing on what you lack. It lasers in on what you perceive your personal shortcomings and failures to already be, and then emphasizes them for you.”
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck • Mark Manson“ “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.””
1984 • George Orwell“We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.”
Self-Analysis • Karen Horney“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”
Essays and Aphorisms • Arthur Schopenhauer“What we ought not to do, we should not even think of doing.”
Fragment • Epictetus