"They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment."

-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Running Quotes #Strong Quotes #Pain Quotes

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Source : Otto Rank Association, Otto Rank (1976). “Journal”
“It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.”

Source : Anatol Rapoport (1974). “Fights, Games, and Debates”, p.12, University of Michigan Press
“I don't find it easy dealing with people with drug problems. It helps if you're all taking drugs, all the same drugs.”
“What matters is the value weâ€™ve created in our lives, the people weâ€™ve made happy and how much weâ€™ve grown as people.”
“I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.”
“Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.”

Source : Enson Inoue (2014). “Live As a Man. Die As a Man. Become a Man.”, CreateSpace
“To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice”
“What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far.”

Source : "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age". "Zero Hour", openvault.wgbh.org. 1987.

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