quotes. definitions

a

"Affect is not just necessary for wisdom; it's also irrevocably woven into the fabric of every decision." - Lisa Feldman Barrett

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way" - Viktor Frankl

b

"The opposite of belonging is fitting in." - Brené Brown

c

"There is no such thing as constructive criticism." - Julie and John Gottman

"Behind every criticism is a veiled wish." - Esther Perel

Every crisis is a crisis of identity. Every loss is a loss of meaning.

"No one can compete with you on being you." - Naval Ravikant

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso

d

"There is no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy." - Mark Twain

"Desire itself is essentially mimetic: it is always the desire to be another." - René Girard.

e

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

f

"Forgiveness means giving up the hope that the past could be any different" - Oprah Winfrey

i

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung

"Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. … You just have to close your eyes." - Céline

l

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" - Ludwig Wittgenstein

m

"Memory is an action: essentially it is the action of telling a story" - Pierre Janet

Midlife: After a lifetime of searching, the fear of having found.

o

"You always own the option of having no opinion." - Marcus Aurelius,

p

"Only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life" - Carl Jung

"Play is a state of unselfconsciousness" - Esther Perel

I am the product of my work.

r

"The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships" - Esther Perel

"The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself" - Diane von Fürstenberg

The cost of acceptance of reality is having to deal with the pain. The cost of non-acceptance is the life not lived.

"Risk is an active engagement with the unknown." - Esther Perel

s

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" - Anaïs Nin

"The camera teaches us how to see without a camera." - Dorothea Lange

"Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential" - Agile Manifesto

"Scientific evidence shows that waht we see, hear, touch, taste and smell are largely simulations of the world, not reactions to it." - Lisa Feldman Barrett

"Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning." - Viktor Frankl

"The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves." - Bessel van der Kolk

"What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it." - Marina_Abramovic

u

"Human beings at their best are resiliant, creative and inventive when unafraid of being themselves" - John Galliano

w

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want." - Madonna

We often most fear what we most want.