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Real power comes from the mind. When someone wants to keep you powerless, the first thing they do is try to control what it is permissible for you to think. They write your story for you without your consent and tell you this is how you must believe until even your own thoughts seem like alien things in your head. They hem you in so there is no escape or relief, until in desperation you step off the page, out of the story, into a place their narrative cannot find you.
A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery
Curtis Craddock
As you read this book, you will see that there is an epidemic of depression among adults and among children in the United States today. As Chapters 6–10 document, depression is not just about mental suffering; it is also about lowered productivity and worsened physical health. If this epidemic continues, I believe that America’s place in the world will be in jeopardy. America will lose its economic place to less pessimistic nations than ours, and this pessimism will sap our will to bring about social justice in our own country.
Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
A lot of things we reserve for relationships are available elsewhere. For example, there’s a tragic misalignment of the hierarchy of friendships and relationships. It’s odd how we’ve relegated friendship so far down the line. It hasn’t always been this way: in early-nineteenth-century Germany having a good friend was seen as more important than having a lover, and much closer to the roots of happiness.
Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn
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