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“Violent acts follow from high self-esteem, not from low self-esteem. This is true across a broad spectrum of violence, from playground bullying to national tyranny, from domestic abuse to genocide, from warfare to murder and rape. Perpetrators of violence are typically people who think very highly of themselves.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

“Romantic jealousy is another experience in which people become irrationally oversensitive because of implicit blows to their pride.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

“You do not have to give people reasons to be violent, because they already have plenty of reasons. All you have to do is take away their reasons to restrain themselves.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty

“ပန်းချီတို့၊ ပန်းပုတို့၊ ဂီတတို့၊ သီချင်းတို့၊ ကဗျာ ဓာတ်ပုံ စသည်တို့ကို အရသာခံတတ်ရင် Connoisseur ခေါ်တဲ့ အရသာခံတတ်တဲ့ ပညာရှင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ပါပြီ။ ဒါပေမယ့် သုခုမပညာရှင်က အရသာခံတတ်ရုံတင် မရပ်ပါဘူး၊ မိမိတို့ခံစားရတဲ့ အရသာကိုပဲ ပန်းချီ၊ ပန်းပု၊ ဂီတ၊ လင်္ကာ၊ ဓာတ်ပုံ သီချင်း စသည့် မိမိတို့ အစွမ်းပညာနှင့် သူတပါးတို့ကို အရသာခံနိုင်အောင် တစ်ဆင့် ဖောက်သည် ချတတ်ရပါသေးတယ် (အနုပညာရသ - ဓားတန်းဦးသန့်)”
― ဆူးငှက်, ပုံတူမန္တလေး

“Two gallons is a great deal of wine, even for two paisanos. Spiritually the jugs may be graduated thus: Just below the shoulder of the first bottle, serious and concentrated conversation. Two inches farther down, sweetly sad memory. Three inches more, thoughts of old and satisfactory loves. An inch, thoughts of old and bitter loves. Bottom of the first jug, general and undirected sadness. Shoulder of the second jug, black, unholy despondency. Two fingers down, a song of death or longing.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Space is dangerous. It's what we do here. If you want to play it safe all the time, go join an insurance company.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
― Ludwig Borne

“The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.”
― Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

“If you really want to change someone’s mind on a moral or political matter, you’ll need to see things from that person’s angle as well as your own. And if you do truly see it the other person’s way—deeply and intuitively—you might even find your own mind opening in response. Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“The Quiet Life

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.

Whose herd with milk, whose fields with
bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter, fire.

Blest, who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years, slide soft away
In health of body; peace of mind;
Quiet by day;

Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix’d; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please
With meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”
― Alexander Pope

“A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhance enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I’m on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar’s not low.” The”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog’s been humping my skull.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“If life transcends death

Then I will seek for you there

If not, then there too”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden