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Freud defined depression as anger turned inwards. There’s some truth to this for sure, but I think the great existential psychologist Rollo May defined it more accurately: “Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
Many of us experience aimlessness or a lack of meaning at various points in our lives. We might be able to talk about things that once excited us in the past, but when we look around at our lives and the choices available to us in the present, we don't actually feel a sense of vitality or enthusiasm.
Casey Rosengren • How to Do Hard Things
We leave because we’re looking. For something. For someone. We leave because we long for something else, something more. We leave to look for some piece of us that’s missing.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
a lot of people, I feel like in their need to “find themselves” and discover their authentic self really is just finding the shit that you like and just going with it.
Ben Settle • BizWorld: How to Create an Irresistible Business Universe Your Customers Love to Buy from and Hate to Leave
Feeling “lost” or directionless. Feeling lost is actually a sign you’re becoming more present in your life—you’re living less within the narratives and ideas that you premeditated and more in the moment at hand. Until you’re used to this, it will feel as though you’re off-track (you aren’t).
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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