Stanislav Stodůlka Quotes

And if you think you've messed up everything you possibly could have? If you believe in reincarnation, you can at least console yourself with the idea that, in the next life, you will try again and do it better. That is, if you're 'lucky' enough to come back here as a human and not as, say, a Thanksgiving turkey.

Paradox: While we want to control the other person's every move, or even every thought, we ourselves often desire freedom and liberty.

So, life is often very difficult, and we can mainly be content with how we managed to live that difficult life.

Give an animal better intelligence and you get man.

Who knows, maybe it's totally awesome after death. We just don't know, so we are afraid, and so we often try to hold on here 'tooth and nail'.

Paradox: These feelings of jealousy are triggered by the body trying to protect us from potentially losing our partner. However, the way excessive jealousy manifests itself ends up driving our partner away.

We are often but slaves to the feelings our own body subjects us to.

Paradox: We harm children in the long run by wanting to help them (out of love or short-term convenience).

If you want to take proper care of others, you must first take proper care of yourself.

A healthy body, with the help of oxytocin and other hormones, creates very intense feelings towards the offspring. Long-term feelings, strong enough to have us feel an endless need to protect the child throughout life, even at the cost of our own. Thanks to these feelings, however, we protect them not only from the environment and its own indiscretions, but often also from ourselves, and therefore from actions stemming from our emotions.

Life begins > I lie down > I can't walk > I can't control excretion > can't control excretion > can't walk > I lie down > life ends

Paradox: We don't have strong enough willpower to have free will.

The expectation that someone else will, in the long run, make us happy is the perfect way to end up unhappy.

Paradox: When our neocortex, the intellectual part of the brain, is merely a servant in the hands of the animal part of the brain.

Want to be a good parent? Be a good person!