"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
Sigmund FreudRead
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Interpretation
Dreams can reveal deep truths, often when they're at their most bizarre.
This quote by Sigmund Freud suggests that dreams that appear illogical or irrational can actually hold significant meaning or insight. Freud believed that the seemingly crazy aspects of dreams often reflect unresolved issues, desires, or fears, thus encouraging us to explore our unconscious minds for deeper understanding.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.
The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.
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