"To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it."

-- Doc Childre

#Wisdom Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”
“Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.”
“Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.”
“Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.”
“Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world”

Source : Bryan Caplan (2011). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies”, p.116, Princeton University Press
“Because thatâ€™s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: Thereâ€™s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.”
“Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”
“The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb-- what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.”

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