20 Quotes by Paul Pearsall

The objective of two lovers is almost always the same; to find meaning in their individual lives and in their life together.

There’s never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

Don’t Expect What Goes Around to Come Around. Total jerks and evil people often get all the good breaks. Being nice guarantees nothing. Good things happen to bad people. Sometimes, things just don’t “balance out” or “work out for the best.

We come to feel as we behave.

The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don’t know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis.

Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

What really drives us to seek help is an equally frightening sensation: that of being alive, yet not really living.

Shut up and listen. Research shows that people who interrupt are three times more likely to die of a heart attack than those who don’t and that marital relationships usually fail because of too much communication, not too little. Couples who spend a lot of time being quiet together stay together.

All the pop psychologists are misleading people about things like guilt and conscience. Guilt is a noble emotion; the person without it is a monster.”16.