372 quotes found
“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
“A person can't change all at once.”
“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do...”
“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very o...”
“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”
“Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
“Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
“It's not that there is no small talk...It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end...Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. ...”
“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the fu...”
“It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to...”
“We forget very easily what gives us pain.”
“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
“Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effe...”
“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”
“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
“But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.”
