G. Frank Lawlis famous quotes

Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.
-- G. Frank Lawlis

#Anger #Blow #Emotional

Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
-- G. Frank Lawlis

#Love #Couple #Giving

War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.
-- G. Frank Lawlis

#War #Brain #Body

According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.
-- G. Frank Lawlis

#Passion #Dust #Wind

Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.
-- G. Frank Lawlis

#Worry #Anxiety #Feelings

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

The heaviest blow which ever struck humanity was Christianity; Bolshevism is Christianity's illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Jew.

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.