“Just screaming ‘Leave me alone!’ took everything from her body.”—L
“I know you’ve been hurt by someone else. I can tell by the way you carry yourself.”—Bobby Bland in I’ll Take Care of You, the most important love song a person can sing to him or herself.
“Spinoza’s philosophy has much in common with Stoicism inasmuch as both philosophies sought to fulfill a therapeutic role by instructing people how to attain happiness. However, Spinoza differed sharply from the Stoics in one important respect: he utterly rejected their contention that reason could defeat emotion. On the contrary, he contended, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion. For him, the crucial distinction was between active and passive emotions, the former being those that are rationally understood and the latter those that are not. He also held that knowledge of true causes of passive emotion can transform it to an active emotion, thus anticipating one of the key ideas of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis.”—Wikipedia
See also: Action, Reaction and Disappointment Mirrors Hope.
