#ness

It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#cry #crying #emotions #feelings #sadness

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#resistance

Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness and compassion. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#eyes #forget #hurts #kindness #love

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them. ↗

— Edward E. Rosenbaum

#illness #medicine #medicine

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#bolano #books #literature-and-illness #sex #travel

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#compassion #happiness #helping-others #service #slavery

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#success #weakness #growth

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#poetry #unexpected

Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand ↗

— Robert Allen

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