“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.” MenFeelingsSpiritCultureLostLossResultsEmotionBrainModernIdentityDegreesHighestTrainingAspectWestForgottenEducationalSensesContemporaryReasoningAestheticInwardAlienationTruestRestlessnessEducational SystemModern ManHis Loss Author:Kallistos Ware
“I have no bone loss, no brain loss, I have a lot of energy and a lot of strength. My heart is perfect so I think I'm more ready than I would have been in my 20s, honest to God.” ThinkingHeartHas BeensEnergyLossPerfectBrainHonestStrengthReadyMy HeartBones Author:Suzanne Somers
“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success” PeopleNeedsKindImportantCertainLossAbilityEmotionBrainCrazyDisciplineTerribleAdversityExtremesDrivenInvestorsIrrationalTemperamentGoing Crazy Author:Charlie Munger
“And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWellsDoePlayLossBrainKnow HowPlayerExampleOrdinaryGainsResponseTendenciesBridgesAffectedOrdinary People Author:Charlie Munger
“I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.” PersonsSpiritLossBrainMortalityHappy PersonSad Person Author:Fernando Torres
“Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your brain is not manifesting on the page or on set or in the edit. But that panic, that loss, that pain - that is the process of creation. Let it hurt, drink some coffee and keep going.” FeelsPainFallProcessHurtLossBrainCreativeStageCreationDrinkPagesCoffeeGoldenEggsKeep GoingManifestPanicCreative ProcessIt HurtsFalling ApartEditsGolden Eggs Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.” WorldCareLossBrainSurvivalOrgansSophisticated Author:John Medina
“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.” PeopleIfsFeelsMindHeartEndsSometimesBodyHandsRememberLossPartyBrainSadnessArmsOvercomingFinding YourselfDivisionGatheringMind And BodyHeart And BrainHistory Of Love Author:Nicole Krauss
“No, it was the brutal loss of his family that haunted him and for that Nykyrian couldn’t fault him at all. Syn had been put through a meat grinder by life. The fact that man could still get up and make it through a day without blowing his brains out amazed him.’ (Nykyrian)” MenStillsFactsLossBrainFaultsGet UpMeatBrutalAmazedGrinder Book:Born Of Night: Number 1 in series Source: Born Of Night: Number 1 in series
“Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour. Take that man I had aloft. He held on as if he were a precious thing, a treasure beyond diamonds of rubies. To you? No. To me? Not at all. To himself? Yes. But I do not accept his estimate. He sadly overrates himself. There is plenty more life demanding to be born. Had he fallen and dripped his brains upon the deck like honey from the comb, there would have been no loss to the world. The supply is too large.” IfsKnowsMenWorldHas BeensValuesCoursesBornLossBrainAcceptingTreasurePlentyFallenDo You KnowHoneyDiamondFavourDeckPrecious ThingsRubiesCombs Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)