“The pessimist and optimist are but two faces of the same psyche, their contrasting outlooks a reflection of the delicate dance of neurotransmitters within the intricate landscape of brain chemistry.”
“Overcoming your trauma isn't easy, but not overcoming it is slow death.”
“This is the ultimate tragedy of segregation. It not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually. It scars the soul and degrades the personality. It inflicts the segregated with a false sense of inferiority, while confirming the segregator in a false estimate of his own superiority.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Those who are not satisfied with their work, or who have no intellectual or cultural interests, and whose coarse emotions have undergone refinement neither by education nor by adherence to civilized custom, are particularly liable to seek out the compensatory complications of domestic disorder and disarray.”
Source: Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses
“I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.”
“The market doesn't reward the smartest traders. It rewards the most disciplined ones.”
Source: Trading psychology. How to Master Your Emotions and Think Like a Professional
“The difference between gambling and trading is risk management. Without it, you're just betting.”
Source: Trading fundamentals. Market Basics • Technical Analysis • Volume Analysis
“If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well." — Rainer Maria Rilke (On withdrawing from psychotherapy, Letter 74)”
Source: Love and will
“Being “correct” might give a brief ego boost, but real joy is not an ego boost.”
Source: Calm Mind, Open Heart: 108 Reflections from Buddhism, Psychology & Real Life
“Center the mind
Cut straight to the core
Brighten the flame
Break open the cage
Shatter the wall
Shut down the noise
Soften the pain
Sharpen the brain”