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September 16, 2021 by Grey Brick Road

Monotony.

  • Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Jose Ortega y Gasset

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time, time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for?

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May 28, 2021 by Grey Brick Road

The Constructive Self.

  • Al Siebert, Arthur Schopenhauer, Carl Jung

It is no more possible to make life easy than it is to grow a herb of immortality.

Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition

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March 1, 2021May 28, 2021 by Grey Brick Road

Social Validation.

  • Arthur Schopenhauer, Carl Jung, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne, Philosophy

Put up with being laughed at on occasion; look around you, and give yourself a good shaking to find out who you really are.

Who are these people whose admiration you seek? Aren’t they the ones you are used to describing as mad? Well, then, is that what you want – to be admired by lunatics? 

Epictetus, Discourses

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March 21, 2020 by Grey Brick Road

The Mediocre.

  • Orison Swett Marden

The world is full of people who are waiting to be pushed, boosted, helped, but they will never be anything but weaklings. If they do succeed through pull or influence in getting the place they long for, they will not have the ability to hold it.

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March 3, 2020February 29, 2020 by Grey Brick Road

This is Untitled.

  • Alexander Lowen, Anthony Storr

“Our expectation that satisfying intimate relationships should, ideally, provide happiness and that, if they do not, there must be something wrong with those relationships, seems to be exaggerated. . .

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February 29, 2020February 29, 2020 by Grey Brick Road

Solitude.

  • Anthony Storr, Baltasar Gracián, Carl Jung

“Do not die of another person’s misery.” -Baltasar Gracián

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December 27, 2019May 10, 2020 by Grey Brick Road

Body Language.

  • Alexander Lowen, Ralph Waldo Emerson

“. . .it is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.”

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December 21, 2019March 21, 2020 by Grey Brick Road

You Will Die.

  • Mathew Arnold, Philosophy

The Buried Life

BY MATTHEW ARNOLD

 

Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet,

Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet!

I feel a nameless sadness o’er me roll.

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October 13, 2019October 6, 2019 by Grey Brick Road

Anxiety follows freedom.

  • Rollo May, Soren Kierkegaard

…is a desire for what one dreads, a sympathetic antipathy. Anxiety is an alien power which lays hold of an individual, and yet one cannot tear oneself away, nor has a will to do so; for one fears, but what one fears one desires. Anxiety then makes the individual impotent.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety

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October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 by Grey Brick Road

Moral Masochism.

  • Erich Fromm, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Philosophy

The rejection of freedom does not leave a man unpunished. It turns him into a slave of necessity.

Victor Gorskii

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for a man to bear, something he tries to escape from?

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