“Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“Love bombing is a technique typically used by emotional manipulators at the start of their interaction with a victim. It involves the intense, sudden, and forceful display of positive feelings toward a victim.”— Michael Pace, amazon.com
“All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because d…”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“The real me isn't the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.”— Malcom Gladwell, amazon.com
“I like to say that meditating is the mind’s way of looking in the mirror and cleaning itself up. Except the mind won’t do this on its own volition. Just sit in silence with your eyes closed. Focus on the breath. Give your mind a chance to correct itself. Watch your life slowly transform into somethi…”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“Instead of meditating to become better at your job, rid yourself of addiction, or solve some sort of problem in your life, meditate to meditate. The act of meditating every day will carry over into everything else you do. People find themselves magically quitting smoking, drinking less, fighting les…”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“Meditation allows us to rearrange the entire mental fabric of living. This makes perfect sense, since it’s been proven to change the brain chemistry of regular practitioners. The mind is able to recalibrate itself and focus on what really matters: present scenery and circumstances.”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“The scale of circumstance is not ‘happiness’ and ‘unhappiness’. There are a lot of ‘happy’ people in this world and a lot of ‘unhappy’ people, but this doesn’t matter. Chasing happiness rearranges your life so that you prevent yourself from taking the risks and enduring the suffering that’s likely t…”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“Many people have a narcotic attitude towards suffering. It terrifies them and makes them uncomfortable and so instead of building a tool set for overcoming it, they aim to stifle it. The sheer popularity of entertainment, junk food, porn, video games and all these other modern distractions is testam…”— Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“It’s a weird specific type of human arrogance to think that people can offset the great universal balance of positive and negative. It’s like trying to split an atom; we all know what happens when you do that. There are thousands of books out there trying to convince people that the secret to their…”— Charlie Ambler, Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“The truth is that the key to relaxation and finding inner peace doesn’t rely much on work, culture, or consumption. This should be a huge relief, since regardless of where you live, what you believe, or who you are, your stress is probably the result of one of the below factors... The world does stu…”— Charlie Ambler, Charlie Ambler, medium.com
“Would you be willing to have horrible nightmares for a year if you would be rewarded with extraordinary wealth?”— Temma Ehrenfeld, psychologytoday.com
“Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?”— Temma Ehrenfeld, psychologytoday.com
“When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?”— Temma Ehrenfeld, psychologytoday.com
“Before making a phone call, do you ever rehearse what you're going to say? Why?”— Temma Ehrenfeld, psychologytoday.com
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've seen more joy in the slums of Mumbai and the orph…”— Nick Vujicik, goodreads.com
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”— Jacques Lacan, goodreads.com