The modern devil is cheap dopamine.
Naval Ravikant
For the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind, however much our youth may deceive us on this point; and the pleasures of the mind turn chiefly on the powers of the mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness, and cannot directly get beyond those limits any more than he can get beyond his own skin; so external aid is not of much use to him.
Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.
Alan Cohen
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Anne Swetchine
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Carl Jung
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
If you confront the limitations of life courageously, that provides you with a certain psychological purpose that serves as an antidote to the suffering.
Jordan Peterson
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal
Old habits have deep roots.
Norwegian proverbs
Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.
Japanese proverbs
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No one ever changes until the pain level gets high enough.
Shauna Niequist
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Andre Maurois
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
Napoleon Hill
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
