Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
Adam PhillipsTag: heroes pragmatism
If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia.
Adam PhillipsTag: nostalgia understanding mothers
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
Adam PhillipsTag: religion childhood adulthood
To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.
Adam PhillipsTag: growing-up equality discovery
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
Adam PhillipsAnger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.
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