"Nothing is more
dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have." --Emile
Chartier
Almost every wise saying has an
opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. -- Santayana, Essays
Everything that can
be said can be said clearly. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wise
sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown
away. -- Sir Arthur Helps
All man's troubles come
from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées,
1670
The believing we do
something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who do not
understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ~Wilhelm
Stekel
[Psychoanalysis] is not the
only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very
effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945
The purpose of psychology is to
give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. ~Paul Valéry,
Tel Quel, 1943
Loneliness... is and always has
been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ~Thomas Wolfe
Becoming conscious is of course
a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of
something. ~Carl G. Jung
If you cut a thing up, of
course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at
last, as human psychology. ~D.H. Lawrence
The cigarette does the smoking
- you're just the sucker. ~Authorr Unknown
There are three modes of
bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
~Charles Caleb Colton
Little things console us because little
things afflict us. ~Blaise Pascal
Children have never been good
at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~James Baldwin
It is almost impossible
systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no
principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is
to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between
good and evil. ~Anatole France
Non-cooperation with evil is as
much a duty as is cooperation with good. ~Mohandas Gandhi
A little learning is not a
dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. ~William
Allen White
Nothing is really work unless you would
rather be doing something else. ~James M. Barrie
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest
jokes. ~James Russell Lowell
Every difficulty slurred over
will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ~Frederic Chopin
In all matters of opinion our
adversaries are insane. ~Mark Twain
He who imitates what is evil
always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates
what is good always falls short. ~Francesco Guicciardini, Storia d'
Italia
Great tranquility of heart is
his who cares for neither praise nor blame. ~Thomas à Kempis
Smokers' typical brain-damage symptoms include "distorted
time perception," they "spoke about time moving slowly," thus
displayed "marked denial of concern . . . about any dangers associated with
tobacco."—Peter H. Knapp, M.D., et al, 119 Am J Psychiatry
(#10) 966-972 [April 1963]. Dangers are future matters, time matters. Likewise
in crime, smoker criminals typically do not visualize and comprehend
time-related matters, e.g., future consequences: most basically, getting caught.http://medicolegal.tripod.com/tcpg.htm
Nothing
so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ~François,
Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
In
small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
~Ben Jonson, To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir
Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison, 1640
I can
live with doubt and uncertainty. I think it's much more interesting to
live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. ~Richard P.
Feynman
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ~Kin Hubbard
We're
all hookers. What matters is dignity. ~Mike Farren
From
the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were
sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. ~André Gide, The
Counterfeiters, 1925
There
is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true
nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindustani Proverb
Fervent atheism is is
usually a screen for repressed religion. -- Wilhelm Stekel
"One
ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine
picture,
and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
- Johan Wolfgang Goethe
It
takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to listen."
– Thoreau
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale
No man was ever wise by chance.
~Seneca
Why have
two problems, something happened that I could not control, so why be
unhappy
also.
www.HappinessClub.com Happ-E-Newsletter
for February 1, 2008
The illimitability and infinity of the Divinity have raised us above the momentary and accidental and have linked us to eternity and to the infinite universe. -- Unknown
The self-hatred that hypocrisy engenders may give rise to various defenses to conceal the duplicity. No thinking person can be at peace with himself if he is a hypocrite. - Unknown
The more that the potential of the soul or the unconscous or the image of God becomes actualized, the more human each individual becomes. The more "human" each individual becomes the more "Godlike" he or she becomes as well. --Levi Meier
To live a lie is so contrary to human nature that our personal integrity cannot tolerate it, and we either confess or disintergrate in neurotic evasion and despair. - Paul E. Johnson, Psych of Pastoral care(Gittlesohn, Man's Best Hope)
No sin is too big for God to pardon, and none is too small for habit to magnify. - Bahya
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn. -Edna St.Vincent Millay
Spiritual optimism, which is based on the inner "knowing" of God as love, and the corresponding faith that life's bad agents are occasions for soul growth, not punishmnets for unworthiness. -Joan Borysenko
If we can accept our humanity with openmindedness and awareness, rather than censoring ourselves out of shame, we will be more capable of choosing behaviors that maximize our freedom and happiness. -Joan Borysenko
Underlying all the distorted thinking that follows from forgeting our true identity as beings of love, worth, and wisdom, is the fear of being bad, which, in turn, might lead to rejection and aboandonment. In a child's mind, rejection and abandonment are equivalent to death. This deep fear sets up a rigid mental censor, a psychological defense mechanism, that splits our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors into two mutually exclusive catagories--good and bad, black or white, safe or unsafe. Splitting means we are either perfect or a failure, a saint or a sinner, and these are catagories that we apply just as rigidly to other people. The self-critism, self-deceit and loss of self awareness that accompany splitting keep us helpless, powerless, ashamed, enraged and anxious--a steep price to pay to appearing "good". -J. Borysenko
[Being}Right makes us feel safe. It protects us from our fear that we are unworthy of love. -Joan Borysenko
Your religion is what you do
when the sermon is over. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
God has given you one face, and
you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
If there existed no external
means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot
themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable
state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ~Leo Tolstoy, The
Kingdom of God Is Within You
Fear
grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light. --
Dorothy Thomson
Yet
it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes
to the top. --Virginia Woolf
As
long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
-Voltaire
Anton Chekhov has said: "Men are made
for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself:
I am doing God's will on earth." - - happinessclub.com
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