Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
“The one who boasts does so only out of a feeling of inferiority.”
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
for example, a depressed brain will show up in cold, brain-inactive deep blues, dark purples, and hunter greens; the same brain when hypomanic, however, is lit up like a Christmas tree, with vivid patches of bright reds and yellows and oranges. Never has the color and structure of science so completely captured the cold inward deadness of
... See moreKay Redfield Jamison • An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
People who live in large cities have larger egos because at night they can't see the stars
Dylano | Essayfulx.com“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
Daily Review | Readwise
After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
When you look back at the most fruitful moments of your life years from now, you’ll be surprised to discover how many of them unfolded amid a big loss or a crisis or in the face of a giant unknown.