#cho

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#wit #writing #nature

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#good-people #human-nature #hypocrisy #pretending #roles

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#beating #complete #faster #having #heart

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#religion

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#death #grief #hurt #life #death

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#pleasure #sad #sorrow #sorrow

Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choices-and-consequences #freedom #meaning-of-life #attitude

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#evil #psychoanalysis #religion #religion

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. ↗

— George Steiner

#ecstasy #whisper #grammar