Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
– Thomas Paine
– Thomas Paine
It’s people we care about most, not things. If you can identify how much significance you place on something merely because of someone else’s relationship to it, you can begin to free yourself from its hold.
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want
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
People who live in large cities have larger egos because at night they can't see the stars
Dylano | Essayfulx.comIn general, even the worst atrocities typically have been committed not simply because they are bad but as a side effect of other actions or as a means to some other end.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
After the surgery, all ten of the patients in the study reported greater mobility and less pain. In fact, the men who received “pretend” surgery did just as well as those who’d received debridement or lavage surgery. There was no difference in the results—even six months later. And six years later, when two of the men who’d received the placebo
... See moreDr. Joe Dispenza • You Are the Placebo
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
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first... See more