A nice way to circumscribe what we call self-serving biases and heuristics in psychology:

“It’s like you mortals have stockholm syndrome with your own histories!”
- Source: SMBC comics

“Jeder Mensch erfindet sich eine Geschichte, die er für sein Leben hält.”

– Max Frisch

“I hope that you are a disaster. I’m sorry, but I do. I hope that you are thunder and lightning. I hope you are a forest fire, I hope you kill the dead wood and burn off the rotting leaves. With the canopy gone, the sun can get in. You need new growth. I hope you’re terrible and broken and perfect.”

– Joey Comeau

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. A vapor, a drop of water, is enough to kill a human being. But even if the universe should crush him, man would still be more noble than that which destroys him, because he knows that he dies, and he realizes the advantage that the universe possesses over him; the universe knows nothing of this.”

– Blaise Pascal

“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
- Anne Lamott

“Natürlich kann nur einer, der der Masse angehört, den Drang empfinden, sich von der Masse abzuheben. Wer sowieso nicht der Masse angehört, braucht keinen bunten Plunder und wirre Frisuren.”
– Max Goldt

Ein Mann, der Herrn K. lange nicht gesehen hatte, begrüßte ihn mit den Worten: “Sie haben sich gar nicht verändert.” “Oh!” sagte Herr K. und erbleichte.
(Berthold Brecht)

“The world is made for people not cursed with self-awareness”
- Bill Durham

“Some people feel the rain, and others just get wet.”

– According to the internet either Bob Marley or Bob Dylan, so we’ll just go with anonymous

(Thanks, D&S)