#cal

Depression is not dramatic, but it is total. It’s sneaky - you almost don’t notice it at first. Like a cat burglar, it comes in through an open window while you’re sleeping. It takes little things at first; your appetite, your desire to return phone calls. Then it comes back for the big stuff, like your will to live. Then next thing you know, your legs are filled with sand. The thought of brushing your teeth fills you with dread, it seems like such an impossible task. Suddenly you’re living your life in black and white – nothing is bright, nothing is pretty anymore. Music sounds tinny and distant. Things you found funny seem dull and off-key. ↗

— Lisa Unger

#psychological #suspense #funny

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#los-angeles #melting-pots #society #southern-california #wealth

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#backwards #efficient #going #means #merely

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#logical-thinking #science #nature

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#october-daye #tybalt #nature

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#centre #contentment #nature #peace #peace-of-mind

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense. ↗

— Criss Jami

#human #human-nature #judging #judgmental #logic

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#metaphysical #spiritual #nature

I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake, and though I hadn ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort, the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, "A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake" feeling sure I was going to learn something. ↗

— John Muir

#earthquake #nature #yosemite #nature

For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#courage #faith #jesus #radical #resurrection