“But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits us to think of many directions in which we…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy. It's you.”— Khang Kijarro Nguyen, goodreads.com
“In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps. Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance. Ugly is not the absence of beauty. Ugly is the inability to identify it. The inability to be surprised by it. It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it. Beauty is simply the manifestation of love.”— Kamand Kojouri, goodreads.com
“I have been absolutely terrified of everything in my life, but I never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”— Georgia O'Keeffe, amazon.com
“Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions.”— George W. Crane, amazon.com
“If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don’t have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don’t have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards and special drills and tutorials to hone their kids int…”— David Brooks, amazon.com
“When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.”— Jen Knox, amazon.com
“Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything – evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing – it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. W…”— Michael Crichton, amazon.com
“We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.”— J.B. Priestley, amazon.com
“How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so t…”— Jonah Lehrer, amazon.com
“The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can leave us feeling dead inside, with little or no ability to feel our feelings in our bod…”— Alexandra Katehakis, amazon.com
“I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the Earth, I see architects and earthquakes, empaths and robots, fictions and near misses, lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.I see us trying on ways of being – so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.”— Laurie Perez, goodreads.com
“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so importan…”— Joshua Foer, amazon.com
“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 old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies,…”— Irvin D. Yalom, amazon.com
“Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”— Marshall B. Rosenberg, amazon.com
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— Carl Gustav Jung, amazon.com