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Essentially, psychological flexibility is moving toward chosen goals even when it’s emotionally difficult. You acknowledge and accept your emotions, but they don’t control you.
“If you can find a way of helping people, you'll live off the interest.”
― Empire of the Sun
― Empire of the Sun
“Was it possible to throw his life away in order to be polite?”
― Lessons
― Lessons
“Dana had Society, Respectability, Tradition, Moral judgment, Time, Security (especially Security), and the generations of cuckolded husbands who had provided him with lessons in how to win by employing patience. Dana Holmes could afford to laugh at Milt Warden who had the audacity to try to defeat this array of heavy artillery with the popgun of Love. Because could you just point out to me once, please, sir, one single time that Love had ever bought anything? In these United States of the United Middle Class of Solid-Fronted United Greater America?”
― From here to eternity: de volledige en ongecensureerde editie
― From here to eternity: de volledige en ongecensureerde editie
“It’s come to shape the way I think about every country, every community: Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
― One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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