#psychology

"I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity."

"Wonderment shared is doubled.Love shared is infinite."

"Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable."

"People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence"

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."

"Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations."

"If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence."

"If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave."

"Deep connection is the antidote to madness."

"I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone."

"Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us."

"To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated."

"I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me."

"With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new."

"There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb."

"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole"

"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue."

"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."

"What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms."

"Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human make-up. It is the craving for knowledge of the right direction - for orientation."