Interpersonal-relationships Quote by Ricky Lee

“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment…

— Stephen W. Porges

“Failure is becoming someone who needs others to fail.”

— Alain de Botton

“I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends,…

— Kevin Breel

“The greatest thing I learned while taking classes at Second City was the very first thing they taught: 'Yes, and...'. In improv, you keep…

— Jason Seiden

“Thomas's mistake, like most of the behavior he leaked into the world, had been avoidable: to join another human being in a situation that…

— Ben Marcus

“I realize I'm just a silly stranger goofing with other strangers for no reason far away from anything that ever mattered to me what…

— Jack Kerouac

“Playing nice" comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when…

— Stephen W. Porges

“I started crying when the group [therapy] was over because the last thing we did upset me - we all held a piece of…

— Carol Lee

“The closest one person can get to another is through silence.”

— Bohumil Hrabal

“I am not good with others.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“Who am I to take away another person's choices?”

— Akiah Watts

“Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead—still less because one…

— Dorothy L. Sayers