Unfollow Quotes

“Very often, we will show compassion to those who need our help – or rather, those whom we think need our help – receiving nothing in return but their approval, and that of an imagined audience of our friends and peers. This sounds innocent enough. Noble, even. Yet, we can attach so much importance to approval that we find ourselves wanting it when we don’t get it or, worse, when we perceive we have failed. And the irony is that we simply can’t show ourselves the same compassion that we show others.”
― Linda Papadopoulos, Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Living Life on Your Own Terms

“The way that identity has been commercialised through movies and TV, and now through social networking, means we’re all sort of working to a script, a collective idea of what needs to happen next.”
― Linda Papadopoulos, Whose Life Is It Anyway?: Living Life on Your Own Terms