#be

Pain was as much a part of this life as the summer and the winter and the rain, and there was no greater asshole than the one who believed you can cure it. ↗

— Brian McGreevy

#believe #cure #life #pain #rain

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. ↗

— Hans Selye

#becoming #every #indelible #leaves #little

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #personality #weirdness #life

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior. ↗

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

#education #psychology #raising-children #education

I've been stabbed lately with life. ↗

— Pepper Phillips

#stabbed-my-heart #life

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ↗

— Seneca

#comes #end #every #new #new beginning

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#watt #life

I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#because #bush #dislike #dislikes #i

We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time. The nurse came in and out of the room. Everything felt awful and I wondered why the whole world didn't seem to notice how bad things really were. I thought of how I'd gotten used to awful, how after my dad died the planets kept on spinning and I got up and ate breakfast every morning and kept going to school. Something happens and it's terrible and you think you can't live another day, but then your mother gets used to it and you get used to it and you both keep on living, and you're not sure if that getting-used-to-things is good or the way life should be. ↗

— Margaret McMullan

#getting-used-to-things #happens #keep-on-living #live-another-day #mother