“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.”— Alfred Adler, brainyquote.com
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remain…”— Erich Fromm, goodreads.com
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need. First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing…”— Patrick Rothfuss, goodreads.com
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfa…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”— Carl Gustav Jung, goodreads.com
“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.”— Alysia Harris, goodreads.com
“Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.”— John Eldredge, amazon.com
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, goodreads.com
“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”— Lisa St. Aubin de Teran, goodreads.com
“Travelling isn’t always about running away from things, sometimes it’s about running into what you truly want.”— American Nomad On Twitter, youbackpacking.com
“Getting the fuck over it does not mean you ignore your feelings. They are not the same thing. Getting the fuck over it means I see you, emotion that could have the power to devastate me and paralyze me for the day, or week, or year. And I am choosing to put my energy elsewhere. It does not mean you…”— Brianna Wiest, soulanatomy.org
“When we introduce ourselves to new people, we shouldn't be saying "to earn money I do this". Instead, we have to present ourselves as musicians, photographers, painters, models and muses, anything we are good at. What we do to earn money is not of the others' goddamn business, we are not our job, an…”— Nina Sever, ninasever.tumblr.com
“There are only two possible sources of love for the self from oneself and from others.”— James Gilligan, internationalpsychoanalysis.net
“I don’t know what brings broken people together maybe damage seeks out damage the way stains on a mattress halo into one another the way stains on a mattress bleed into each other.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.”— J. D. Salinger, genius.com
“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget:…”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com