#pre

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. ↗

— Robert M. Sapolsky

#pessimistic #self #pessimism

Juno MacGuff: Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into? ↗

— Diablo Cody

#teenagers #mac

Writing is the great invention of the world. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#us-presidents #writing #writing-life #inspirational

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#soho-press #zombie #zombies

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#depression #guns #pain #saddness #war

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? ↗

— Jane Goodall

#environmentalism #nature #preservation #nature

An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust. ↗

— Barbara W. Tuchman

#hope #hopelessness #self-belief

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#cried #empty #nothing #outline #past

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christian-living #cross #love #preach #violence

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. ↗

— Richard von Krafft-Ebing

#depair #depression #happiness #illusion #joy