“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Too many people mistook envy for happiness. They believed other people wanting to do the things they were doing was more important than doing things they wanted to do. So they'd edit their photographs and edit their lives and edit and lie until from a distance, it looked like they had the perfect life. But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.”
Source: Intentional Dissonance
“Josif Brodski je, jasno i ubedljivo, ovako objasnio: "Zlo je vulgarno. Koren svih zala je teorija da si ti bolji od nekog drugog. Ljudi misle da su bolji od drugih i da im pripada više nego drugima. Tu počinje zlo.”
Source: 50 pitanja i 50 odgovora iz hrišćansko-psihoterapeutske prakse
“Sećam se Enrika Josifa, koji je jednom rekao: "Ne postoji Božija dobrota bez Božijeg gneva. Pridodavati Tvorcu gnev nije antropološka pridodavajuća vrlina. U Božijem gnevu leži najdublja tajna mističke, prečišćene Božije ljubavi," dok je hrišćanski svetitelj Tihon Zadonski upozoravao sentimentalne hrišćane ovako: "Đavo predstavlja čoveku samo Božije milosrđe, a izbegava pravosuđe Njegovo, da bi tako lakše navodio čoveka na greh i u gresima ga održao. Jeste Bog milostiv, ali je i pravedan.”
Source: 50 pitanja i 50 odgovora iz hrišćansko-psihoterapeutske prakse
“Everyone says there’s a voice in your head that serves as your conscience. Well, I’ve had lots of time to think about this, and I have my own psychological theory: Everybody has a tiny person in their head. Stay with me. Don’t laugh. This “Tiny Person” talks to itself, which would explain the voices we hear, but it makes its own decisions. People are merely drones controlled by them.”
Source: Not a Bestseller
“If the new information is consonant with our beliefs, we think it is well founded and useful: "Just what I always said!" But if the new information is dissonant, then we consider it biased or foolish: "What a dumb argument!" So powerful is the need for consonance that when people are forced to look at disconfirming evidence, they will find a way to criticize, distort, or dismiss it so that they can maintain or even strengthen their existing belief. This mental contortion is called the "confirmation bias.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“The more costly a decision, in terms of time, money, effort, or inconvenience, and the more irrevocable its consequences, the greater the dissonance and the greater the need to reduce it by overemphasizing the good things about the choice made. Therefore, when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it. That person will be highly motivated to convince you that it is the right thing to do.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“We assume that other reasonable people see things the same way we do. If they disagree with us, they obviously aren't seeing clearly. Naïve realism creates a logical labyrinth because it presupposes two things: One, people who are open-minded and fair ought to agree with a reasonable opinion. And two, any opinion I hold must be reasonable; if it weren't, I wouldn't hold it. Therefore, if I can just get my opponents to sit down here and listen to me, so I can tell them how things really are, they will agree with me. And if they don't, it must be because they are biased.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“Još je Dostojevski s pravom rekao da je đavolov trijumf kada postigne da čovek prestane da veruje u njega!”
Source: 50 pitanja i 50 odgovora iz hrišćansko-psihoterapeutske prakse
“Klinik psikologların çoğu hastalarının mevcut durumları ile geçmiş yaşantılarını irdeleyerek, hastanın belli bir şekilde davranmasına veya düşünmesine neden olabilecek geçmişe ait etkileri anlamaya çalışırlar. Klinik psikologlar hastalarının vaka öykülerini alırken onların geçirdikleri evreleri yeniden oluştururlar ve süreç içerisinde şimdiki davranışı açıklayabilirler.”
Source: A History of Modern Psychology 3e