Psychology Quote by Joshua Wolf Shenk

“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What bound people together was so fragile.”

— Paul Russell

“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep…

— Gary Shteyngart

“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.”

— Charles Dudley Warner

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

“People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway”

— Nora Roberts

“Sometimes we need to fall apart, to be disappointed and to be in pain. Just to be pushed beyond what we think our limitation…

— Sam Dosdos

“Some people were just designed to be destructive”

— Emily Curtis

“People express their arrogance in their failed expectations.”

— Travis Luedke

“It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.”

— Brian Tracy

“Our fear of failing at various tasks would likely be much less were it not for our awareness of how harshly failure tends to…

— Alain de Botton

“Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.”

— Chuck Palahniuk