"Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Ingrid Betancourt

#Identity Quotes #Routine Quotes #Want Quotes

“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
“What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of work may be, it is never the whole, and all ideas lose their proper power when they are used out of their appropriate context. That is why one great philosopher does not necessarily displace another, why there is room for all of them and a great many more whom we do not have yet.”

Source : Mary Midgley (2011). “The Myths We Live By”, p.223, Taylor & Francis
“What do any of us ever truly know?”

Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
“Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.”
“Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.”
“It seems to me that we canâ€™t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we canâ€™t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isnâ€™t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
“I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.149, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, itâ€™s about how these five elements interact.”

Source : Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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