Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
think it’s for the same reason, actually, that we enjoy eating spicy food: what scientists call “benign masochism.” In a harsh world, it can be soothing to microdose shots of controlled pain. Comforting, to touch the scary parts of life without putting ourselves in real danger. Humor has always served this function; it allows us to express... See more
Tim Robinson and the Golden Age of Cringe Comedy (Published 2023)
"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
— Erich Fromm (The Sane Society)
— Erich Fromm (The Sane Society)
goodreads.com • Search Results for "Mark Twain"
II.
Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
... See moreNot knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away.
Hakuin Ekaku
“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.”
Christopher McDougall • Born to Run
Die With Zero
Bill Perkins
Unfortunately, in real life you rarely get an exact date for when you will no longer be able to do something—these things just seem to fade away. And until they’re gone...
Bill Perkins
Unfortunately, in real life you rarely get an exact date for when you will no longer be able to do something—these things just seem to fade away. And until they’re gone...
Nico Walker • Daily Review | Readwise
I have over a decade’s worth of eating disorder experience at this point. There were the anorexic years, the binge-eating ones, and the current bulimic ones. The more experience I’ve got, the more I recognize that the body is hardly a reliable reflection of what’s going on inside it.
Jennette Mccurdy • I'm Glad My Mom Died
Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis
cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.