Quotes by Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Privilege

Psychology

Stuck

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn’t actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Made

People

Writing

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It’s one of the things that makes me happy.

Car

Make Me Happy

People

I don’t know if my mother was a narcissist – or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Mother

Narcissist

Years

I’m sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the ‘me generation,’ but none of them lived at my house.

Generations

House

Mother

I’ve been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree – most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I’ve got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

Christian

Hands

Positive Thinking

I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.

Irritated

New Friends

New Relationship

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don’t worry too much about hurting other people’s feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

Hurt

People

Worry

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn’t unhappiness or even depression, it’s anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Block

Happiness

Home

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Acceptable

Emotion

Has Beens

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Artist

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Blood

Burritos

Car

Care

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Children

Christian

Class

Community

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Fighting

Fists

Flow

Generations

Given

Habit

Hands

Happiness

Has Beens

Heart

Home

House

Hurt

Ideas

Irritated

Made

Make Me Happy

Married

Matter

Mind

Mother

Narcissist

New Friends

New Relationship

People

Perfect

Perfect Days

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Psychology

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Reason

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Quotes by Ariel Gore

Ariel Gore

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn’t actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It’s one of the things that makes me happy.

I don’t know if my mother was a narcissist – or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

I’m sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the ‘me generation,’ but none of them lived at my house.

I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don’t worry too much about hurting other people’s feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn’t unhappiness or even depression, it’s anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

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