#psychology

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#psychology #inspirational

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God." Aristotle ↗

— Bruce Wayne Sullivan

#animals #childhood-memories #dogs #good-book #life-struggles

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

As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers. ↗

— Tim Gilmore

#history #paranormal #parapsychology #death

Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that dinner with friends as a business expense? Will you be honest with your daughter? Will you take more credit than you’re due? These are just the small questions that we face every day, and little by little, the answers influence the trajectory of our lives and beings. ↗

— Donald Van de Mark

#ethics #inspirational #inspirational-success-failure #leadership #life-purpose

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#acting #acting class #anthropology #class #courses

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#video-games #change

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm. ↗

— Ken Robinson

#life #passion #psychology #success #change

And many years later, as an adult student of history, Knecht was to perceive more distinctly that history cannot come into being without the substance and the dynamism of this sinful world of egoism and instinctuality, and that even such sublime creations as the Order were born in this cloudy torrent and sooner or later will be swallowed up by it again...Nor was this ever merely an intellectual problem for him. Rather, it engaged his innermost self more than any other problem, and he felt it as partly his responsibility. His was one of those natures which can sicken, languish, and die when they see an ideal they have believed in, or the country and community they love, afflicted with ills. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#psychology #spirituality #inspirational