“The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpretin…”— Malcom Gladwell, amazon.com
“Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here because we inherited traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, find mates, and reproduce. This momentous fact explains our deepest strivings: why hav…”— Steven Pinker, amazon.com
“We think of forest fires as these devastating events that we need to stop, but they are actually vital to ecological health of an area. There are plants that require the heat of a wildfire for their seeds to burst open and plant themselves in the earth. There are others that are meant to be flammabl…”— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“The way other people feel about you is not your responsibility.”— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“We judge ourselves by our intentions but others by their actions. We tend to think other people's mistakes are caused by character flaws while our mistakes are due to situational factors. Our good behavior is attributable to fundamental traits while other people's is temporary and situational. Thus…”— Richard O'Connor, amazon.com
“Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of charms is the power of the will; you might say that we were all geniuses of psychology in those dark days, that we could be slain by the power of anothe…”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "A…”— Ken Wilber, amazon.com
“If you feel like you don't fit in this world, it's because you're here to help create a new one.”— Unknown, amazon.com
“The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, co…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“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
“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
“I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the st…”— Oliver Sacks, 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