We think we control them, but actually is they who hypnotize us and domesticate us. And we are increasingly surrounded by machines that under the cover of optimization and practicality diminish our ability to understand reality and to act upon it.
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Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air at rest, and the weathercock of the air in motion.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel — Journal Intime
We spend so much time preparing ourselves for disappointment that we rarely consider the opposite skill: how to receive success, happiness, love, or abundance without immediately bracing for its disappearance. When life becomes better than we imagined, we sometimes stop trusting that it will last & we start waiting for the other shoe to drop. We become so afraid of losing the thing we love that we don't even enjoy having it.
Polina Pompliano