Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more
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
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
Modern capitalism is a pro at two things: generating wealth and generating envy.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
"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"
One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."-Frederick Douglass
Vince Allen
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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 moreMany urban citygoers continually confront homelessness, but are caught without time, cash, or wherewithal on if cash will help. “I want to help. I’m unsure how.” These and other barriers lead to the easiest response: do nothing. And so, individuals without a home are told 100s of times an hour that they don’t exist.