Some experimenters have reported that an angry face “pops out” of a crowd of happy faces, but a single happy face does not stand out in an angry crowd. The brains of humans and other animals contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
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Maggie Stiefvater
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
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Amit Kalantri
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid...
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Criss Jami
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
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Emma Donoghue
More Quotes By Daniel Kahneman
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.
The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.
...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.
