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“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observationâ€� the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast,
And each will wrestle for the mastery there.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? Doing to others an act you’d rather not have done to you reveals a powerful internal conflict.”
― Alexandra Katehakis

“Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Self-destructiveness may be a primary form of communication for those who do not yet have ways to tame their excruciating inner conflicts and feelings and who cannot yet turn to others for support.”
― James A. Chu, Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders

“So there you have it: two things & I can't bring them together & they are wrenching me apart. These two feelings, this knowledge of a world so awful, this sense of a life so extraordinary—how am I to resolve them?”
― Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

“Transformation is not a kind place, it’s chaotic and a source of inner conflict because it is not a ‘safeâ€� place, but it is a place of growth; a place of rebirth where you can restart and realign with who you are. We can learn so much from the caterpillar that grows its butterfly wings in the ache and darkness of its own cocoon; and is reborn, beautiful and free, with wings to fly. This is the true meaning and profoundness of transformation; it is where the truest parts of you can emerge and you transition into the most intuitive and vibrant canvas of yourself.”
― christine evangelou, Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose

“Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off his head immediately, and stick it on a pike!'

Gennosuke could hardly believe his ears. Such an insult to Irako Seigen was unwarranted. It was pride. For Gennosuke, Irako Seigen was pride itself.

Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke! It is the way of the samurai to take the head of the defeated enemy on the battleground. Do not hesitate! If you are a samurai, you must carry out the duty of a samurai!'

Samurai...

Saegusa, Lord of Izu, continued shouting, but Gennosuke did not attend. That word 'samurai' alone reverberated through his body.

If one aims at the juncture between the base of the skull and the spine, decapitation is not that difficult, but Gennosuke could muster no more strength than a baby. He grew pale and trembled with the strain. He could only hack with his sword as if he were sawing wood. He felt nauseated, as if his own cells one after another were being annihilated. But this...

Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga: 'I approve.'

Takamasa Saegusa: 'Fujiki Gennosuke, for this splendid action you have received words of thanks from our lord. As a sign of his exceptional approval, you shall be given employment at Sunpu Castle. This great debt will by no means be forgotten. From this day forward you must offer your life to our lord!'

Prostrating himself, Gennosuke vomited.”
― Takayuki Yamaguchi, シグルイ 15

“The only demons with which a Free Spirit should be concerned are those with which each of us must wrestle within ourselves. And wrestle with them we must, lest we unwittingly unleash them upon those around us.”
― Rikki de la Vega, Laurie's Liberation

“First: breakdown, impossible to sleep, impossible to stay awake, impossible to endure life, or, more exactly, the course of life. The clocks are not in unison; the inner one runs crazily on at a devilish or demoniac or in any case inhuman pace, the outer one limps along at its usual speed. What else can happen but that the two worlds split apart, and they do split apart, or at least clash in a fearful manner. There are doubtless several reasons for the wild tempo of the inner process; the most obvious one is introspection, which will suffer no idea to sink tranquilly to rest but must pursue each one into consciousness, only itself to become an idea, in turn to be pursued by renewed introspection.

Secondly: this pursuit, originating in the midst of men, carries one in a direction away from them. The solitude that for the most part has been forced on me, in part voluntarily sought by me –but what was this if not compulsion too? –is now losing all its ambiguity and approaches its dénouement. Where is it leading? The strongest likelihood is, that it may lead to madness; there is nothing more to say, the pursuit goes right through me and rends me asunder. Or I can –can I? –manage to keep my feet somewhat and be carried along in the wild pursuit. Where, then, shall I be brought? ‘Pursuit,â€� indeed, is only a metaphor. I can also say, ‘assault on the last earthly frontierâ€�, an assault, moreover, launched from below, from mankind, and since this too is a metaphor, I can replace it by the metaphor of an assault from above, aimed at me from above.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“The world we live in, i.e., the life we perceive, is a perfect reflection, a mirror image, of our internal reality.”
― Joseph Deitch, Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life

“When the internal critic puts you down using such comparisons, here's how it operates:
First, it selects a single, arbitrary domain of comparison ( fame, maybe, or power).
Then it acts as if that domain is the only one that is relevant. Then it contrasts you unfavorably with someone truly stellar, within that domain.

It can take that final step even further, using the unbridgeable gap between you and its target of comparison as evidence for the fundamental injustice of life. That way your motivation to do anything at all can be most effectively undermined.”
― Jordan Peterson

“I believe that the most tragic war of our time is the one within—a war between what we knew as children and what we’ve learned as adults. A war between wisdom and intelligence. A war between the natural colour of our hair and the colour we chemically impose upon it. A war between the manicured hedges and the untouched wilderness. A war between reality and fairy tales. A war between what we could learn about the world and what we are systematically taught. A war that can end in peace.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Art of Talking to Yourself

“The question is not, do you have conflicts? The real question is, are you aware of your conflicts?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“Man möge das gegenwärtige Weltgeschehen, welches die ganze Menschheit,wie nie je zuvor, in zwei anscheinend unvereinbare Hälften zerreißt, im Lichte unserer oben angedeuteten psychologischen Regel betrachten: wenn ein innerer Tatbestand nicht bewußtgemacht wird, dann ereignet er sich als Schicksal außen, das heißt, wenn der Einzelne einheitlich bleibt und sich seines inneren Gegensatzes nicht bewußt wird, so muß wohl die Welt den Konflikt darstellen und in zwei Hälften zerteilt werden.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Aïon : Études sur la phénoménologie du Soi (Essai Espaces Libres)

“A mind that has no conflict, is not alive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“Anybody who says they don't have any conflict, is either lying or deluding themselves.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“Lancelot was a sadist who refrained from hurting people through his sense of honour - his Word. His Word was his promise to be gentle, and it was one of the things that made him the Best Knight in the World. 'All through his life,' [T.H.] White wrote of Lancelot, 'even when he was a great man with the world at his feet - he was to feel this gap: something at the bottom of his heart of which he was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand.' White always took great pains to be gentle precisely because he wanted to be cruel. It was why he never beat his pupils at Stowe.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“Flesh cannot satisfy spirit. And so now you must seek the Grail.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“something not entirely right. But without options beyond what’s expected and with a deep desire for approval, one does what one sees.

At least, that is what one does until one no longer can.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“¿Valdrá la pena mantener ese silencio? Después de todo, el amor es el tesoro más valioso que se puede poseer.”
― Angel Monge

“All that clearly emerged from his attitude and expression was that he was in a state of strange indecision, seemingly adrift between the two extremes of death on the one hand and salvation on the other—ready to shatter that skull or to kiss that hand.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Victor Hugo Reprint Edition

“Shattered mirrors
on the living room floor,
a place where mirrors �
in any form �
should not be.

Lying and laying �
up and down the room
they reflect each whole thing,
its completeness,
as if the very sight
could harm us �
so perfect, so unreal
from their perspective.

I drown on the floorboards,
you waste my tears
by drying them.

All the lies,
the lies you told,
up and down the room
like mirrors, broken ones.

Truth reflects nothing
unless it’s broken.

Outside this room,
you roam the hallways,
searching for feelings within.

Dating a lie,
dangerous and monstrous
like your mind and soul.
Survival is a matter of time
and a dance on balanced sheets.

The shattered pieces still lie there �
waiting for completeness to end,
chaos ensuring perfection.

The lies fall still
in the afternoon light
that rests on the floorboards.

Breathing easily now,
vanishing glimpses �
truth fades slowly,
holding no place
between you and me
and all the lies you told.”
― Laura Chouette

“There may be a fleeting and tantalising (from the point of view of both patient and therapist) ability to find the therapist helpful when in contact with the therapist, but there is always the fear for the DID patient of the therapist changing into a malign object, of realising they have been tricked again. Secondly there is the problem not only of object consistency but of object permanence, whereby the therapist ceases to exist as an object between sessions. Thirdly there is the problem at the Therapist being introjected by one personality, and that link being then enviously attacked by another personality in a way that is hidden from the view of the therapist.”
― Peter Whewell, Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder

“Her smile never faltered when she answered, 'Yes.”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire

“I don’t know how to end a war I was born into;
how to end a conflict and a fight that I don’t understand even the people say I am on their side;
What is the wrong one and how can I end this?”
― Laura Chouette

“We become numb ourselves while the world calls it a tragedy.”
― Laura Chouette

“A soul is a monstrous thing,
weaker than the heart
yet stronger than the mind.
What you can’t give your heart,
feed your soul with�
and reveal everything hidden.”
― Laura Chouette

“If you have a secret story that you cannot share with anyone, life then becomes even more difficult.”
― Aytekin Yılmaz, Ernesto'nun DaÄŸları

“I told myself whatever lie would work. Because I needed a lie.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne