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."

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.

The more ways we have to connect the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

The quicker your forget unpleasant instances and forgive yourself or others for wrong deeds, the better are your chances of focusing on your aspirations and working towards them.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.

The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

Some of nature's most exquisite handiwork is on a miniature scale, as anyone knows who has applied a magnifying glass to a snowflake.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

Heaven is a family gathering of believers from every tribe and nation but it is also our Fathers house and in that house He is preparing a room just for you. When you arrive in heaven and Jesus opens the door youll know youre home. For the Christian heaven is spelled H O M E.

Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.