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  • #1
    Honoré de Balzac
    “It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

  • #2
    An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.
    “An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
    Jen Knox, Chaos Magic

  • #3
    Bisco Hatori
    “We're always contradicting ourselves.
    We want people to tell us apart....
    ...yet we don't want them to be able to.
    We want people to get to know us...
    ...but we also want them to keep their distance.
    We've always longed for someone to accept us...
    But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways.
    That's why we'll stay locked up tight...
    ...in our own little private world...
    ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.”
    Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 9

  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #5
    Asa Don Brown
    “Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
    Dr. Asa Don Brown

  • #6
    Erich Fromm
    “If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #7
    William Gibson
    “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
    William Gibson, Zero History

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “A person can't change all at once.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #9
    Sun Tzu
    “To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #10
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

  • #11
    C.G. Jung
    “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
    Carl G. Jung

  • #12
    Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
    “Through others we become ourselves.”
    Lev S. Vygotsky

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #14
    Robert Greene
    “...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.”
    Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

  • #15
    Richard  Adams
    “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down

  • #16
    Socrates
    “Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
    Socrates

  • #17
    Irvin D. Yalom
    “Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”
    Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

  • #18
    Charles Dickens
    “Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #19
    Saul Bellow
    “One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
    Saul Bellow, Herzog

  • #20
    Alan W. Watts
    “One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
    Alan Wilson Watts, Psychotherapy East and West

  • #21
    Margaret Atwood
    “Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #22
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls

  • #23
    Graham Greene
    “We forget very easily what gives us pain.”
    Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear

  • #24
    Asa Don Brown
    “All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.”
    Asa Don Brown

  • #25
    Sigmund Freud
    “My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.”
    Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

  • #26
    Jeffery Deaver
    “She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”
    Jeffery Deaver, The Bodies Left Behind

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #28
    John Berger
    “When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”
    John Berger

  • #29
    Brené Brown
    “It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.”
    Brené Brown

  • #30
    Keith Ablow
    “Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
    Keith Ablow, Denial



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