To Be Happy
There are people so afraid of being hurt that they will never give themselves a chance to be happy — for happiness depends on taking risks, on allowing onself a sometimes willfully ingenuous trust in others.
Learning, Relearning, Unlearning
It is far easier to learn something new if it is utterly unexpected than to learn something that contradicts what we already know. Moreso on an unconscious level than on conscious one, our brain rejects contradictions and old patterns play out again while we attempt to perform new ones, making the new ones so difficult [...]