Able Quote by Susan Sontag

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with…

— John Galt

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the…

— Alain de Botton

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

— Eric Hoffer

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Sometime people are disempowered because they subconsciously identify themselves by their temporary circumstances instead of connecting with their innate value and truth.”

— Steve Maraboli

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds…

— Plato

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship…

— Bruce Lee

“As a friend of mine put it, “Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing.”…

— Tara Brach

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately…

— Vaclav Havel

“A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.”

— Jack Kerouac