Motaz Alfarraj

“in the last two years alone, more Americans died from gunshot wounds than were killed during the entire Vietnam War. By contrast, in all of Japan (with a population of 120 million people), the number of young men shot to death in a year is equal to the number killed in New York City in a single busy weekend.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“A more promising hypothesis is that happiness comes from within and cannot be obtained by making the world conform to your desires. This idea was widespread in the ancient world: Buddha in India and the Stoic philosophers in ancient Greece and Rome all counseled people to break their emotional attachments to people and events, which are always unpredictable and uncontrollable, and to cultivate instead an attitude of acceptance. This ancient idea deserves respect, and it is certainly true that changing your mind is usually a more effective response to frustration than is changing the world.”
― Jonathan Haidt

“learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest,”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We’d view it as a great perversion of natural law—but we wouldn’t deny it.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence