The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.
Sebastian JungerTags: war psychology combat
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.
Kevin Alan LeeTags: politics society philosophy psychology humanism memoir government medicine culture political-science psychiatry socialism health-care mental-illness schizophrenia medical reference health-care-system split-mind
Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely.
Richard BachmanTags: rage grace psychology charlie king stephen richard bachman decker
It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.
Kelly BrysonTags: psychology motivation coercion
If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.
Kelly BrysonTags: inspiration psychology creativity
Any failure we could suffer throughout our lives, will turn into little successes if we take the right path, keep walking.
VálgameTags: psychology
We are gods with anuses.
Ernest BeckerTags: humor religion psychology human-condition existentialism philosofy
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.
Honoré de BalzacTags: remaining-silent silence reticence psychology gossip
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.
Honoré de BalzacTags: youth psychology maturity
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will?
Honoré de BalzacTags: passion beauty people psychology emotion sincerity observation personality description ugliness
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