Quotes - Laura (Belgium) Showing 1-30 of 110

#1

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression

1707 likes

#2

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: darkness-self-knowledge, social

2113 likes

#3

“Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

1259 likes

#4

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

15762 likes

#5

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

9214 likes

#6

“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: history

1591 likes

#7

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

1131 likes

#8

“What we don't understand we can make mean anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: superstition

671 likes

#9

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

579 likes

#10

“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

548 likes

#11

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: mortality

575 likes

#12

“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

408 likes

#13

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: ckoke, power, weak

380 likes

#14

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

327 likes

#15

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: perspective

290 likes

#16

“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

254 likes

#17

“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: choke, the-past

212 likes

#18

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

199 likes

#19

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: facts

155 likes

#20

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

164 likes

#21

“The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: lessons, life

119 likes

#22

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

109 likes

#23

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: life-experience

2704 likes

#24

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: action, service

2279 likes

#25

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: fear, freedom, responsibility

1782 likes

#26

“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity”
― Sigmund Freud

97 likes

#27

“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”
― Sigmund Freud , On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"

54 likes

#28

“Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: kiss, loneliness, love, nothing, smoking

64 likes

#29

“Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

tags: dream, dreams, psychology

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