Most of us know ourselves only from our limited experiences in familiar situations that involve rules, laws, policies, and pressures that constrain us. We go to school, to work, on vacation, to parties; we pay the bills and the taxes, day in and year out. But what happens when we are exposed to totally new and unfamiliar settings where our habits don’t suffice? you start a new job, go on your first computer-matched date, join a fraternity, get arrested, enlist in the military, join a cult, or volunteer for an experiment. The old you might not work as expected when the ground rules change.

Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect
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qoktasiniz:
“Papatyalar kızmadı hiç bir zaman yapraklarından fal bakılmasına. Gün olur belki sevmeyide ögretebilirim umuduyla.
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qoktasiniz:

Papatyalar kızmadı hiç bir zaman yapraklarından fal bakılmasına. Gün olur belki sevmeyide ögretebilirim umuduyla.

But with you I am deeply passionately, unrequitedly in love.

Virginia Woolf, “Letter to Vanessa Bell,” October 16, 1928
(via books-n-quotes)

We think, each of us, that we’re much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it’s the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we’ve already made the decision.

Daniel Kahneman
(via fyp-psychology)

Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

Sigmund Freud (via fyp-psychology)