Chiara

“Affection is only one ingredient of love. To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients -- care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. [...] When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them; that is, we invest feelings or emotions in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called "cathexis." In his book, [M. Scott] Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us "confuse cathecting with loving." We all know how often individuals feeling connected to someone through the process of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting or neglecting them. Since their feeling of that of cathexis, they insist that what they feel is love.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell, what it is like to be alive. All I’ve ever wanted to do is tell that, I’m not trying to solve anybody’s problems, not even my own. I’m just trying to outline what the problems are.

I want to be stretched, shook up, to overreach myself, and to make you feel that way too.”
― James Baldwin

“Not only do we want to rescue our mothers but also we want to change our destiny so we will never suffer the way they did or do.”
― bell hooks, Communion: A New York Times Bestseller

“Io voglio invece leggerezza,
libertà, comprensione
– non trattenere nessuno,
e che nessuno mi trattenga.
Tutta la mia vita
è una storia d’amore con la mia anima,
con la città in cui vivo,
con l’ albero al bordo della strada,
con l’aria.
E sono infinitamente felice.”
― Marina Cvetaeva