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Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct — maybe I was just in denial. I just don’t get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all of a sudden you just aren’t. I will never forget that day...the day where I became numb.


Piper Caleb


#diary #eating-disorders #new-adult #psychology #love

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.


J. Jack Halberstam


#social-psychology #sociology #sociology

Ο άνθρωπος βλέπει, ακούει, μιλάει σωστά μόνο όταν ενδιαφέρεται για τη σύνδεση με το περιβάλλον, με τους άλλους ανθρώπους.


Άλφρεντ Άντλερ


#humans #psychology #sociology #sociology

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.


Kay Redfield Jamison


#humor #mania #manic #mental-illness #psychology

Only those who leave home ever really find it.


Gene Ruyle


#life-experience #psychology-of-self #experience

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#freedom #meaning-of-life #psychology #purpose-of-life #work

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.


Oliver Sacks


#love

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?


Natalie Angier


#humor #psychology #humor

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.


Steven Pinker


#evolutionary-psychology #humor #humor






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