True attention is a state so difficult for any human creature, so violent, that any emotional disturbance can derail it. Therefore, one must always endeavour strenuously to protect one's inner faculty of judgement against the turnoil of personal hopes and fears. - Simone Weil

The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back. - @Gabrielle_ Cleland

We might need occasionally to despair of someone as the price to pay for keeping faith with ourselves. - Alain De Bottom


To be nobody-but-yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight. - E.E. Cummings