#psychology

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#freedom #meaning-of-life #psychology #purpose-of-life #work

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#psychology #inspirational

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God." Aristotle ↗

— Bruce Wayne Sullivan

#animals #childhood-memories #dogs #good-book #life-struggles

Mental Health is measured though motivation to live; the more plans you have and the more significant they are, the more healthy you are. ↗

— Mark Brightlife

#mental-health #psychology #motivational

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#love

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic? ↗

— Natalie Angier

#humor #psychology #humor

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #clever #cognition #cognitive #cognitive-psychology

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. ↗

— William Gibson

#engineering #psychoanalysis #psychology #design

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#evolutionary-psychology #humor #humor

A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#video-games #change