The most dangerous form of self betrayal is pretending to be okay with a man who’s breaking your heart. You think you’re keeping the peace, but you’re really declaring war on your own nervous system.
i detach very fast. Anything i love extremely deeply I'm prepared to lose. It can break my heart but I have learned how to keep going. It can seem cold, but if it takes me off my pivot..l'll cut my finger off to save my hand. I can’t lose myself again, for anything. I'Il heal.
“Ends don’t justify the means”
Well duh, as Aristotle says “ends” have inherit value whereas the “means” only have instrumental value, something good cannot come from evil means without being perverted
The conjunction of ends, and not the unity of means, has been the principal problem of Humanity in the course of its Overcoming. Ends; I have seen the people of my generation cast them like stones. and sink every one of them, like pebbles on a sea floor.
Underrated life lesson: You have to sacrifice short-term freedom in order to earn long-term freedom. Instant gratification will kill your dreams. Sacrifice is the cost of entry. Delayed gratification is the key to the life you want.