#thought

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#emotion #feeling #happiness #insecurity #pain

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#human-nature #instincts #life #man #thought

He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#born-again #circling #dejan-stojanovic #fresh #fresh-start

But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#jobs #new-thought

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #dignity #feelings #hide #literature

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #far-away #literature #literature-quotes #myself

The most complicated skill is to be simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others. ↗