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Quotes by Psychologist
"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."
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"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
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"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
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"It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
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"Unconditional love corresponds to one of the deepest longings, not only of the child, but of every human being; on the other hand, to be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me,maybe this, or that-there is always a fear that love could disappear. Furthermore, "deserved" love easily leaves a bitter feeling that one is not loved for oneself, that one is loved only because one pleases, that one is, in the last analysis, not loved at all but used."
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"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."
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"Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist."
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"One is not loved accidentally; one's own power to love produces love - just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they forget that the essence of attractiveness is their own capacity to love. To love a person productively implies to care and to feel responsible for his life, not only for his physical existence but for the growth and development of all his human powers. To love productively is incompatible with being passive, with being an onlooker at the loved person's life; it implies labor and care and the responsibility for his growth."
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"I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don't need much to get by. I need my visions. I need my books. I need new thoughts and lessons, from older souls, bars, whisky, libraries; different ones in different towns. I need my music. I need my songs. I need the safety of somewhere to rest my head at night, when my eyes get heavy. And I need space. Lots of space. To run, and sing, and change around in any way I please-outer or inner-and I need to love. I need the space to love ideas and thoughts; creations and people-anywhere I can find-and I need the peace of mind to understand it."
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"My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music."
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"Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold."
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"It was the irrational doubt which springs from the isolation and powerlessness of an individual whose attitude toward the world is one of anxiety and hatred. This irrational doubt can never be cured by rational answers, it can only disappear if the individual becomes and integral part of a meaningful world."
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"We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh airand realise you can't get up. You're too far down."
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"It could be yesterdaywhen I was less in loveI thinkFor I didn't see you in the mirrorbehind mewhile getting dressed.The way your hands couldn't stay awayand our bodies always found their ways back to each otheras if they were meant to be togetherClose.But then it was today and I saw you againin the mirrorbehind me while getting dressedSo I go to sleep tonightalonewithout actually falling asleep because I'm scared of the moment I will wake upand realise it was just a dreamYou're actually gone.Now all I can do is get through to another tomorrowhoping that I will be less in loveagainLike yesterdayBut not today.I was never really well with things at all."
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"Man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them they are legitimately what directs his contact in the world."
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"Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it."
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"I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!"
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"The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible."
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"I'm here for you. Always. Do you feel me?Hear me? I talk to you every night, does it reach you?"
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"Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively."
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"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar."
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"Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name."
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"The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul."
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"In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach."
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"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."
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"The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought."
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"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
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"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
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"The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life."
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"I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in."
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"Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense."
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
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"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
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"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
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"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation."
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"Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time."
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"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy."
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."
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"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do."
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"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."
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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
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"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?"
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"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
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"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
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