We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

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

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I’m not a bad person.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.