Studien zufolge tut soziale Abweisung genauso weh wie physischer Schmerz. Das hat evolutionäre Gründe, da dies damals ein Warnsignal dafür war, dass sich der Stamm bald von einem abgrenzen könnte.

Es ist effektiver, zu überlegen, was man beim nächsten Mal besser machen kann, als sich ständig seine vergangenen Fehler vorzuwerfen.

Bei einer Trennung, einer Kündigung oder Ähnlichem sollte man die Fehler nicht ausschließlich bei sich selbst suchen. Meistens liegt es daran, dass die Chemie einfach nicht stimmt.

Um in einer Tiefphase sein Selbstwertgefühl wieder zu steigern, notiert man sich circa fünf seiner Stärken, sucht sich eine aus und schreibt einen kurzen Text über sich und die jeweilige Stärke.

Fühlt man sich ausgegrenzt, sollte man einfach etwas mit anderen Leuten unternehmen, die die Anwesenheit von einem zu schätzen wissen. So erinnert man sich daran, dass man nicht weniger wert ist, nur weil man nicht eingeladen worden ist.

"Der größte Schaden, den Abweisung verursacht ist meist selbstverschuldet. Gerade wenn unser Selbstbewusstsein seinen Tiefpunkt erreicht, kommen wir und schädigen es noch mehr."

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

Permanence perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles discouragement s and impossibilities It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.

Children must be taught how to think not what to think.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

We are always searching for a cave to fit in.

The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man’s mind.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of mans other inventions.

Sing away sorrow cast away care.