#Psychology
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"Uncertainty (not knowing what is going to happen) creates more stress than knowing that something bad is definitely going to happen."
— Meridith Elliott Powel
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"Sometimes it's easier to reach out to people who have more in common with us. Don't give in to that tendency. Stretch to make connections with people who can bring a diversity of thoughts and skills to your resource network. That will amplify your potential, no matter what direction the NASDAQ is heading."
— Meridith Elliott Powel
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"All of life is a low-intensity survival challenge, and a survival emergency is just a high-intensity life challenge."
— James C. Jones
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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?"
— Joseph Stalin
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"While life in its merely biological aspects is a miracle and a secret, man in his human aspects is an unfathomable secret to himself—and to his fellow man. We know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we may make, we do not know ourselves."
— Erich Fromm
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"The concentrated meditation is the highest activity there is, an activity of the soul, which is possible only under the condition of inner freedom and independence."
— Erich Fromm
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"L'amour est l'enfant de la liberte! Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination."
— Erich Fromm
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"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."
— Erich Fromm
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"The less you want to be happy, the happier you’ll be. The less you need to perform better, the better you’ll perform."
— Brad Stulberg