“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.” NeedsFeelsPainLife IsAbilityLaughingHumourCommunicationAnxietyLaughterGainsDistanceReliefAbsurdityHierarchyLaugh At LifeLove And Communication Author:Sara Davidson
“Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.” WorldDoneBigsStuffTermLossAcceptingHigherDemandGainsStrategyDistanceCelebrateHillsValleysTolerateShort TermCrossingsHaltStagnationBig Stuff Author:Neal Stephenson
“I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.” PoliticalSufferingValuesDifficultMoralJudgmentGainsDistanceIndifferenceDetachmentRelativismMalady Author:Pierre L. van den Berghe
“I dont think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.” ThinkingWayIgnoranceGainsDistance Author:Alice Sebold
“But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.” HomeBigsSchoolOrderThreeLostFeltLosesWalksGainsDistanceShoesScaredVulnerableShellsCasualtiesChunks Book:About a Boy Source: About a Boy
“In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.” MayStillsHumanityProgressCryHorrorOne DayGainsUniversalDistanceJoyous Author:Galileo Galilei
“When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that we are enough just as we are and that we are worthy of love and belonging. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don’t fit with who we think we’re supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving. Our sense of worthiness—that critically important piece that gives us access to love and belonging—lives inside of our story.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingImportantEnoughStoriesFeelingsPiecesOur LivesFitProveLetting GoGainsDistanceLifetimeWorthyAccessSupposed To BePerformingBelongingHustleWorthinessWorthy Of Love Author:Brené Brown