The Key to Life: In 365 Quotes

1. Addictions are humans attempt to murder time so we don't have to address mortality. Drugs are about the moment. To hell with the future. Mindless satisfaction, drugs and alcohol make you not care or worry about consequences. You lose time and don't think of the future. If you're an addict, you need to find something better than the drug, so what's better?

2. Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

3. Being funny is like being a wizard. You have the power to take people's troubles away with laughter.

Patrice O'Neal

4. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

5. Following in the footsteps of Freud, where his ideas are so profound that it is now just part of common human knowledge.

6. Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. I can only do so much versus I did the best that I could do means the same thing.

8. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hermann Hesse

9. If you think back 12 months and there's still a memory that makes you feel sad, you should write it down as completely as possible.

Jordan Peterson

10. If you want to get rid of someone tell them what they want to hear, not what's good for them.

Larry Smith

11. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

12. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J. K. Rowling

13. It is no use holding others responsible for your ruin and destruction. Because whatever happens to you is the result of something bad you have done to someone, somewhere in the past.

Anjleena Khunger

14. Left to our own devices, we will remake the entire world in our own image.

Jared Brock

15. Lie detectors don't work on people who really think they're innocent.

16. Pathology vursus ordinary misery: Sigmund Freud was trying to figure the distance between these when he first came to America.

17. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

18. Shower upon him every earthly blessing, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of the species and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

19. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Carl Jung

20. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

T. A. Borman

21. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

22. The metaphor of the 'clammy hand' reaching out represents a moment requiring social commitment. One must either accept the connection and hold firm, or reject it and withdraw. The key insight is that this moment demands a decisive action, as the uncertainty of the 'middle stage' cannot last forever.

23. The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

24. Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

Sigmund Freud

25. To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

Carl Jung

26. We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

27. When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

28. When your joy and sorrow become bigger, the world becomes smaller.

Khalil Gibran

29. Would you rather be ignored or hated? If you're hated at least you exist.

30. You can't heal what you never reveal.

Jay-Z

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2. Boredom: the desire for desires.

3. Being funny is like being a wizard. You have the power to take people's troubles away with laughter.

4. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

5. Following in the footsteps of Freud, where his ideas are so profound that it is now just part of common human knowledge.

6. Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

7. I can only do so much versus I did the best that I could do means the same thing.

8. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

9. If you think back 12 months and there's still a memory that makes you feel sad, you should write it down as completely as possible.

10. If you want to get rid of someone tell them what they want to hear, not what's good for them.

11. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

12. Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

13. It is no use holding others responsible for your ruin and destruction. Because whatever happens to you is the result of something bad you have done to someone, somewhere in the past.

14. Left to our own devices, we will remake the entire world in our own image.

15. Lie detectors don't work on people who really think they're innocent.

16. Pathology vursus ordinary misery: Sigmund Freud was trying to figure the distance between these when he first came to America.

17. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

18. Shower upon him every earthly blessing, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of the species and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

19. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

20. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

21. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

23. The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

24. Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

25. To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.

26. We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

27. When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

28. When your joy and sorrow become bigger, the world becomes smaller.

29. Would you rather be ignored or hated? If you're hated at least you exist.

30. You can't heal what you never reveal.

31. Your greatest trauma is now the baseline for the rest of your life.

32. You were bullied when you were 13. Now you carry it with you through your posture, demeanor and outlook on humanity for the rest of your life.

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