Without self-discovery, Hahn wrote, extending an idea of Nietzsche’s, a person may still have self-confidence, but it is a self-confidence built on ignorance and it melts in the face of heavy burdens.
Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.
Thinking seems to me less persuasive evidence of being than does choosing. Not in our chemistry and not in circumstance does our humanity lie, but in our will to work with the technologies available t...
These are astonishingly early processes. The
There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that...
The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental.
The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing against, in the poet Richard Wilbur's phrase, 'loving things for reasons'. You find beauty and hope in...
So the question is whether people prefer to be marginal in a mainstream world, or mainstream in a marginal world, and many people quite understandably prefer the latter.
Mă simt tot timpul ca și cum fiecare ar vrea o bucățică din mine.
Many coping strategies have a Zen simplicity. Instead of resolving chaos, find beauty and happiness amid chaos. I am reminded of a friend who said that when she found out her husband couldn’t fill her...
I’ll tell them all the good things and some difficulties. The parents may never accept what happened to them and yet accept their child. They’re two separate things, the parental loss, and the actual...
I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair. When it comes, it degrades one's self a...
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now y...
When describing children with Down's Syndrome, he called a child 'heart spontaneous'.
Unlike Edith Piaf, I regret everything just because it is finished,
Em unless you got the money to pay. Fred has been given a regimen of meds for HIV, but he stopped
To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles.
To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment to every aspect of him, is to achieve parenthood's self-regardi...