Stanislav Stodůlka Quotes

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

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

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'.

We are an animal that has acquired the ability to perceive that it is an animal.

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

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.

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

Let's live in a way so that we don't have to be afraid to die!

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

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

So we often use the intellectual part of the brain to fulfil the wishes of the animal part.

The male body, for example, is specific in terms of its participation in the reproductive process because of its relative simplicity, but above all its speed. After all, the phrase 'he lasted three whole minutes' didn’t just come about by accident.

Being sexually attracted to someone does not guarantee that they will be a suitable life partner.

Give an animal better intelligence and you get man.

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.