Early relational trauma results from the fact that we are often given more to experience in this life than we can bear to experience consciously. This problem has been around since the beginning of...

Something you can learn without knowing it.

Historically, psychologists have looked at introversion as the absence of extroversion. They measure extroversion, and if you are low in it, then you are considered an introvert. This perpetuates the...

People who understand human behavior and personality tend to find flaws in every next person they meet, analyze their actions and develop bit sociopath nature.

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of...

When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.

Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds

All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.

You are only Invulnerable when you are in Fear

The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures—which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value.

They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion).

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

... reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays...

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that...

Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

All people are brave when their power is rising.

The only thing more dangerous than your enemy knowing how powerful you are, is your enemy not knowing how powerful you are

For years I wondered what was her curious power, her ability to attract all kinds of people to her and to use them for her own ends, often with their knowledge. I think it was that people liked...

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe that of all its influence nothing is left but decay. Every advance...

The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.

Nodier's later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities...

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of...

Of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object - or will be.

The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch.