A capacity to feel joy must be balanced by a capacity to know pain
Our world is born of, and exists because of, duality. This is a fundament of our natural world, but it's also important to see in our own lives. The truth is that the greater capacity you have for darkness is as much contrast through which you can see light. The yin/yang of our emotional selves is always in balance; it truly just depends on what perspective we choose to view things through-both are equally available to us, the choice is always, ultimately, ours.
Sayfa 301
What little furniture he had was already moved into a studio apartment in the working-class but basically decent Trask district of Raccoon City, there was a nice park not two blocks away, and it was only a five- minute drive to the station. No more gridlock, no more overcrowded slums or random acts of brutality. Assuming he could survive the embarrassment of showing up to his first shift as a full-blown officer of the law without having unpacked his bags, he was looking forward to living in the peaceful community.
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” So choose wisely when you are getting involved with someone, because the stakes are high: Your happiness depends on it!
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"You look at love, and especially woman," she began, "as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleasurable torture, of pungent cruelty. This is a genuinely modern point of view." "You don't share it?" "I do not share it," she said quickly and decisively, shaking her head, so that her curls flew up like red flames.
"The ideal which I strive to realize in my life is the serene sensuousness of the Greeks—pleasure without pain. I do not believe in the kind of love which is preached by Christianity, by the moderns, by the knights of the spirit.
Yes, look at me, I am worse than a heretic, I am a pagan.
General Public
This 50% block is everyone you walk past on the street and don’t take notice of, space fillers if you would. It’s likely many men reading this are in this block, but don’t worry because this is only temporary if you have the slightest level of ambition. Mr and Mrs average and everyone below sit within this block and tend to stick together.
These are the people who focus on marriage, babies and mortgages like their lives depend on it. They marry young, they obsess over finding the one and their entire value revolves around being wanted by someone/anyone. The women in this block at 1’s to 5’s and they worship celebrities, handsome men and anything unobtainable to them. They’re the type of people you see at a One Direction concert. The men in the general public block are unambitious, happy to take the backseat in life, disregard their physical health and see women as prizes rather than equals. They will worship beautiful women and likely follow them on social media. These are the men funding OnlyFans.
In our case, there is a more subtle dialectic between necessity and contingency: as identity depends entirely on conditions of existence which are contingent, its relatonship with them is absolutely necessary. What we find, then, is a relationship of complete imbrication between both: essence is nothing outside its accidents. But this means - and this is the second consequence -that the antagonizing force fulfils two crucial and contradictory roles at the same time. On the one hand, it 'blocks' the full constitution of the identity to which it is opposed and thus shows its contingency. But on the other hand, given that this latter identity, like all identities, is merely relational and would therefore not be what it outside the relationship with the force antagonizing it, the latter is also part of the conditions of existence of that identity.
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"He will always make it difficult to love him because that’s the only defense he has."
“I don't know whether I'm happy or unhappy. But there's one thing I do know. You can convince yourself to be happy or unhappy. It just depends on how you choose to see things.”
Çünkü bizi derinden yaralayan olayları hiç anmamak, tümüyle unutmak, daha doğrusu unutmuş gibi davranmak zorundayız yaşamaya devam edebilmek için..
Gençliğin mutluluğu, gençlerin kendileri dışında nerdeyse herkesin inandığı koca bir yalandır, hiçbir gencin ‘’genç olduğum için aman ne mutluyum’’ dediği duyulmamıştır.
Bernard Shaw, yaşını açıkça
Someone once said to me that ‘everything that happens in this world leaves a mark,’ but whether you can find it depends on each side’s luck.
I said to you then, ‘Everything that happens in this world leaves a mark, as long as it’s a true thing. Without a mark to support your opinion, however much you believe in it, it’s still only a dead end of the imagination.’
-"Would you tell me ,please,which way I ought to go from here?"
-"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
- "I don't much care where " said Alice.
-" Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat
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"Some people say that marriage is like wine and gets better with age, but I guess it all depends on the grapes."
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" said Alice.
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where..." said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added...
Sayfa 46 - The British Library Publishing DivisionKitabı okudu
Think of Me Too
If you want me to listen to you, respect that I can hear. If you want me to speak to you, respect that I have a voice. If you want me tolook at you, respect my ability to see. Do you know how to do thatListen to me when I talk, talk to me when you hear me, and look atme when I look at you. Share with me not only your sadness but alsyour happiness. If I can bear hours of your sadness, believe me, it'sbecause I would like to see days of your happiness. Depend on me ifyou respect that I am worthy of your trust. Open your heart to me iyou respect that I am worthy of your love.
Hahah depends on what you want to see
Time magazine summarized the overall reception of the novel by asking, “Is it a novel? Is it a nightmare?”
Sayfa 109 - "The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign,” Time, Oct. 14, 1957.
