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Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. ↗

— Mark Epstein

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Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one. ↗

— P.D. James

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To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown. ↗

— Karen Horney

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Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. ↗

— James Hillman

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‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ↗

— C.G. Jung

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It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. ↗

— Graham Greene

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At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

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You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#daylight #individuation #maturity #philosophy-of-life #psychology

In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand. ↗

— Agnes Kamara-umunna

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I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

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