A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

As for our majority… one is enough.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

Hatred is settled anger.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Value is what you get.

I mean, people aren’t continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don’t want to. We aren’t destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.