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All efforts to live [Bemühungen ums Leben] lead to death.
Byung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
OUR FIRST ACT AS FREE MEN was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. And even when we were no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge. The next day, a few of the young men ran into Weimar to bring back some potatoes and clothes—and to sleep with girls. But
... See moreMarion Wiesel • Night
Our need to maintain our old, familiar sense of “who I am” often makes us want to maintain our survival patterns, even when they are causing us suffering.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
Sebastian Junger • Tribe — Sebastian Junger
Thus he is always irrationally ready to fear invasion by vast and vague forces which are other than himself; strangling encirclement by everything that is not safely clarified as allied; and devastating loss of face before all-surrounding, mocking audiences. These, not the animal’s fears, characterize human anxiety, and this in world affairs as
... See moreErik H. Erikson • Childhood and Society
sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else
As Terry had written: “Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one generation, has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to his ancestors and spares the children that follow.” I wanted to be that person.